When I was younger, watching someone play a computer game stretched as far as waiting for them to hand over the controller so you could have a go. Then, multiplayer games meant you could both play at ...

Although I’ve seen many movies, games and TV portrayals of an apocalypse where the world is left barren, creating a vacuum into which the best and worst of human nature breathes oxygen, it occurred to...

I must confess I’m not too well versed in the cyberpunk genre much beyond Blade Runner and The Matrix, although I’ve had a go at toying with some of the genre’s themes myself in the fringes of my own ...

In NARCOBALL: LOVE, DEATH AND FOOTBALL IN ESCOBAR’S COLUMBIA, David Arrowsmith shines a spotlight on the fascinating and compelling true story of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar and his influence...

Earlier this year I ran a writing workshop at Prestatyn High School with about twenty Year 7 and 8 students. The session was built around my book THE SAPLING METHOD, starting with a reading, and then ...

TIME’S ELLIPSE by Frasier Armitage is one hell of a page-turner. Armitage has crafted a very readable, at times funny and tragic, propulsive tale front-loaded with intrigue. I was drawn in quickly. Wi...

It’s been a couple of years since I read D. H. Schleicher’s first short story collection AND THEN WE VANISH. The stories in that book felt very special, tantalising and intricate, and reminded me of t...

Two phrases that will cause anyone who pays attention to the developments in the field of UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) to roll their eyes and groan, are “Buckle Up” and “Trust Me Bro”. They...

Sing me no deep hymn of devotionSing me no slow sweet melodySing it to one, one of the brokenAnd brother you’re singing, singing to me One of the Broken: Prefab Sprout In December 2000, five days befo...