new painting of Ronnie Wood

It sucks.

A letter

I have a letter published in today's Guardian Review.

Scroll down here.

Signs

Cliff Top wrote many famous books about walking in Kent.

You can also walk to The Dickens Museum from here.

Or, if you are a Viking, you can cycle along the coast.

Alfred Hitchcock fans may prefer to go indoors immediately and start barricading all doors, windows and fireplaces.

Ken MacLeod on ‘Dead Iraqis’

If you are easily offended, or are of a sensitive disposition, this book can be recommended as a small step towards ridding yourself of these afflictions.

Nicholas Lezard reviews 'Dead Iraqis' in today's 'Guardian'

Reviewed in today's Guardian here. (For the record, Lezard is quite mistaken in thinking that I am really Macdonald Daly. Dr Daly is a university teacher and a Glaswegian; I am neither.)

You can order the book here.

'Charles Dickens Lived Here'

'barnaby rudge'