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Soul Reaper
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I've written two short stories that you can't buy anywhere. They're free, and they're yours the moment you join my mailing list. Need a Little Walkies is...
Big News for Need a Little Time Fans
Something is stirring. If you’ve spent time with Jamie, Bert, and Lee Tower, you might want to keep your eyes open over the coming days. There’s a new...
The Wise Liars Podcast
COMING SOON! A new podcast experience from the makers of ‘Middle Raged’ and “Retrolists’ Wise Liars Two indie authors. No filter. Every lie worth telling....
The Ministry of Loafers: How to Invent a Conspiracy (and Why It Works)
It started with a three-hour documentary about making shoes. Slow stitching. Close-ups of leather. Sunday morning pacing. The kind of programming that...
Software Costs Money
Stop Being Shocked That Software Costs Money There’s a strange ritual happening on YouTube. A creator with a monetised channel reviews a niche...
The Teabag Shape Wars of the 1990s
How Britain Lost Its Collective Calm Over Geometry and Tea History books often overlook minor conflicts. The ones fought not with banners or bayonets, but...
Top 10 Retro Gaming Books Every Nostalgia Addict Should Read (Perfect Christmas Gifts for Retro Gamers!)
For the friend who says “just one more level” even in December. Retro gaming season hits hard at Christmas. Maybe it’s the glow of fairy lights that...
Why We’ll Never Run Out of Music (Even If It Feels Like We Should)
Some nights, usually when I’m supposed to be asleep or paying attention to a Teams call, a thought sneaks in and starts rearranging the furniture in my...
The Smallest Possible Amount of a shit.
Physicists tell us the universe has limits - a smallest possible distance (the Planck length), a smallest possible slice of time (the Planck time), and...
The Cult of Jealousy: How We Mistook Fear for Love
We’re living in a zero-trust society — a kind of military lockdown of the heart. Everyone’s on high alert, running emotional surveillance like it’s...
My Grandma Taught Me This One Trick (That’s Total Bollocks)
You’ve seen them. You’ve definitely seen them. Those short, breathless videos that begin with: “My grandma taught me this!” “My Italian friend showed me...
The 10 Best Technothriller Series
(That Will Fry Your Neural Circuits) When the boundary between man and machine blurs, you get technothrillers: high-octane suspense, gritty conspiracies,...
Love in the Time of File Formats
I used to think fluency would make life easier. It doesn’t. It just makes silence louder. The more precisely you can describe something, the fewer people...
The Best Album for Testing New Headphones and Speakers (That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)
When you get your hands on a shiny new pair of headphones or speakers, the first thing you do is fire up a track to test them out. Everyone has their...
Who Exactly Are These “Pro Expert” Toothbrushers Anyway?
This morning I looked at my toothpaste and it proudly declared itself Pro Expert. Pro Expert what? Who exactly are these mythical pro-level...
The Gym, The Beach, The Lie
I've been paying attention to how humans wield the word "the." Most of the time it's straightforward. The car, the bus, the sun -- definite, universal,...
Why Whitby is the Goth Capital of the UK
Walk through the cobbled streets of Whitby on a misty evening and you’ll feel it immediately — the weight of history, the shadows of the past, and that...
50 Years of wrist watch evolution
From Tick-Tock to Tap-Tap There was a time when a watch was just… a watch. A little circle of metal strapped to your wrist, a couple of hands wobbling...
50 Years of Music Players – From Vinyl to Streaming
There’s a good chance that if you’re under 25, you’ve never actually owned a physical album. And that’s fine — why would you? In 2025 you can pull your...
Why You Should Give Up Social Media (But I Know You Won’t)
Social media is the digital equivalent of junk food. You know it’s bad for you, you know it’s rotting your brain, you know it’s stealing your time, but...
50 Years of CPU Evolution: From Clunky Chips to Pocket Supercomputers
If you’re reading this, you’re already using one of the greatest inventions of the modern world — the CPU. That tiny silicon square inside your laptop,...
The Cult of the “One Thing” (And Why It’s Utter Bollocks)
There’s a question doing the rounds lately that makes my eye twitch every time I hear it: “What’s the one thing I can do to [insert life-changing goal...
Why I Don’t Watch, Listen To, or Read the “News” (And Why You Shouldn’t Either)
People sometimes look at me like I’ve grown a second head when I tell them I don’t watch the news. No TV bulletins, no radio headlines, no scrolling...
Why I Finally Switched to Fastmail (and Why You Probably Should Too)
For years, my inbox was a bin fire. Endless newsletters I never remembered signing up for, spam disguised as “offers,” and search so bad that half the...
The Toby Steele Series
A Dark, Addictive Techno-Thriller for Fans of Cyberpunk, Conspiracy, and High-Tech Suspense If you’re hunting for your next binge-worthy thriller series,...
The Twin Flame Game — Darkly Funny Dating Thriller You Haven’t Read (Yet)
Everyone’s talking about twin flames these days. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube — the internet is flooded with soulmate quotes, spiritual coaches, and viral...
10 Best Dad-Lit Books Every Modern Man Should Read
Discover the 10 best Dad-lit books every father (or fan of fatherhood fiction) should read. From Nick Hornby classics to the modern masterpiece Who Needs...
50 Years of Tube Tickets: From Paper Stubs to Tap-and-Go
In London, even the smallest details of daily life have transformed beyond recognition. Few changes are as striking — and as invisible to commuters today...
The “Delivery Experience”
Apparently, I had a delivery experience the other day. Not a delivery. Not two blokes dumping a dishwasher in the middle of my kitchen and legging it. No,...
The Glamour of Air Travel
You’ve seen the glossy ads. The smiling families. The shiny planes. The implied romance of travel. Let me tell you the truth: air travel is about as...
From Rotary to AI: How Telephones Evolved Since the 1970s
The Evolution of Telephones: From Rotary Dials to Smartphones and AI How have telephones changed since the 1970s? The journey from rotary dials to...
Avocados Are Nuts (And Other Unpopular Opinions)
Who decided avocados are berries? Botanists, apparently. And who decided what counts as a nut, a seed, a fruit, or a vegetable? Some bloke in history with...
Top 5 Time Travel Romance Books You Need to Read
If you’re a fan of stories where love transcends centuries, fates intertwine across eras, and heart-stopping moments are wrapped in the magic of time...
Goodbye, Plastic Bags of Shame: Airport Security Finally Catches Up
This week I flew from Shannon to Gatwick and back. No laptop out. No iPad out. No Kindle, shampoo, toothpaste, cables, or assorted travel junk laid bare...
Books Like Daemon -- 10 Techno-Thrillers to Keep You Hooked
If you've torn through Daniel Suarez's Daemon and Freedom™, you know the rush: high-stakes suspense, rogue code on the loose, shadowy networks pulling...
How many decades does it take to change a light bulb?
50 Years of Light Bulb Evolution: From Glowing Coils to Smart Illumination It’s wild to think that just a few decades ago, we were lighting our homes with...
My Creative Writing Toolkit: Apps I Use and Why - (updated version.)
Here’s a full breakdown of the apps I use daily, weekly, and sometimes obsessively as an indie author. These tools help me plan, write, research, and...
The Real Irish Units of Time
The Real Irish Units of Time Time is a construct. In Ireland, it’s also a suggestion. We don’t measure time here the same way other places do. Sure, there...
DVD Extras Are Ruining the World
There was a time when a film was a film. A car was a car. A peach was just a peach. Now? Nothing’s allowed to exist without context, commentary, and...
Soap Opera Syndrome
Why people can’t live without drama—even when they should There’s a quiet plague spreading through modern life. Not a virus, not a crisis, not a...
The Office Corridor Fallacy
There’s a persistent myth in the world of modern work. A romantic, cinematic lie that’s been reinforced for decades through TV dramas and boardroom...
Flat White Theatre
On Bad Coffee and the Performance of Identity Sometimes I think people don’t actually like coffee. They like paying for coffee. More specifically, they...
Stop Stuffing Your Title With Trashy Words
—Why every “gripping, twisty, unputdownable” thriller sounds the same Let’s talk about a quiet crime happening across Kindle shelves. No, not the murders...
Is it worth it?
##### The Hidden Cost of Cheap Crap and Bad Design We’ve normalised it: Shipping mountains of flimsy plastic tat halfway across the world just so it can...
It’s 2025 and I Just Got a Cheque — Seriously?
This morning, something landed through my letterbox that I genuinely hadn’t seen in years. Not a bill. Not a takeaway menu. Not a flyer for chimney...
Spiralling into doom
The Worst Coat Hook in the History of Coat Hooks Let’s talk about this abomination screwed to my door. It’s a coat hook. Technically. Functionally? It’s a...
Top 10 Techno-Thriller Books That Keep You Hooked — and One You Might Have Missed
If you love techno-thrillers — stories packed with high-stakes suspense, cutting-edge technology, and morally grey characters navigating global...
I’m Not a Rich Man, So I Can Only Afford the Best
##### My dad used to say this all the time: “I’m not a rich man, so I can only afford the best.” It sounded backwards when I was a kid — like some kind of...
10 Notable Time Travel Books — and One You Might Have Missed
This article lists ten of the most well-known and highly regarded time travel books, followed by an independently published novel that deserves to be...
Best Podcast Equipment Setup 2025: My Pro Audio Gear (Shure, RØDE & More)
Caution. Expensive post I love gadgets and tech. Always have. And I’ve got a soft spot for gear that actually works — no gimmicks, no flashy junk, just...
We Used to Mean It
There was a time when names were no-nonsense. You were what you did. If your name was Smith, it was because you were a smith — blacksmith, silversmith,...
The Unknowable
There are things that can’t be known. And I’m not talking about mystical forces or what happens after you die — though, sure, throw those in the mix too....
Oranges Are a Lie
I’ve had this nagging thought for a while now: There can’t possibly be enough oranges in the world. Seriously — think about it. Supermarkets are full of...
Why I Don’t Watch TV
And haven’t, properly, in over 20 years I don’t watch TV. Not just “I don’t watch much,” or “I only stream things,” or “I skip the ads.” I mean: I don’t...
What I Listen to While Writing
Music for focus, flow, and a bit of gentle magic I write in silence — most of the time. But not total silence. There’s usually something playing. Soft....
I Write My Own Stories
But I don’t mind getting help with the boring bits Let’s get this out of the way: I write my own books. Every sentence, every structure, every stubborn...
The Apps I Use for Writing
Because good tools make a difference — and yes, I pay for them happily People love to argue about writing apps. Which one’s “best,” which one “real...
Why I’ve Used Apple Gear for Over 30 Years (Long Before It Was 'Cool')
I bought my first Mac — a Performa 6200 — sometime in the mid-90s. This was before the iMac, before the iPod, before any of it was fashionable. And it was...
Why I’ve Had It With Tech Commentary
I’ve been casually following tech coverage for years, decades. Podcasts, blogs, YouTube channels, the odd snarky Reddit thread — all of it. And over time,...