Ha, thank you. The writing's not lucklustre, with any luck, just the view from the other end of the pen.

There's loads of 'ejaculating' in the Sherlock Holmes stories. It will never not be amusing.

Working/writing for Time Off was my writing school, which led, eventually, to a lacklustre career as a novelist. Wouldn't trade those Time Off years for the world.

I’d read another million words of this; Such Ironic Timber.

Holidays for many but not for this bookshop! Just finished the new excellent novel Somebody Down There Likes Me by @robertlukins.bsky.social - a kind of tragi-comedy about a family wallowing in wealth, and what is exposed when the tide of their fortune abruptly recedes.

Oh thank you!!

The feel of the plastic case reluctantly prying open is in my DNA.