Friday 1 March 2024

My Life in Orbit


New novel My Life in Orbit to be published by Everything With Words, out June 13th!

Fantasticus Autisticus, his best friend Olly calls him now. He doesn’t really get it, but then he’s got other things on his mind. There’s the weekly haircut, his ritual orbit of the high street, and meeting his grown-up daughter for the first time at two o'clock.


But his day does not go to plan. First he is roped into Olly’s haphazard attempt to recover money stolen from his fellow orbiter of the high street, Ahmet. Along the way he bumps into Teigan, who he longs to speak to but can never find the words. And then the nagging voice in his head he calls Daddy commands him to prepare his life story for his daughter. All of it.


And so he remembers. Growing up the only child of a single mother in poverty. The undefinable thing about him that made him different at school. His unlikely escape to university, and the teachings of a nineteenth century mystic.


Along the way, there are moments of both triumph and disaster, of love, friendship, and death. There are comic books (31,284 of them to be precise). And all of it has been leading to this day, when the orbit must break, and everything changes…


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Tuesday 22 February 2022

Back catalogue reacquired

This year I have unexpectedly regained the rights to my entire fiction back catalogue. I have decided to make everything available as a Print-on-Demand paperback from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. This means that for the very first time, The Shuffle, Erotic Nightmares and Whatever You Are Is Beautiful can be purchased as physical copies. All the books are also available as ebooks from Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books and a range of other online stores. Paperbacks are from £9.99, ebooks from £3.99 and all can be found by clicking on the images below.





Wednesday 28 August 2019

The Fixer

Raf just wishes his dad had bought him a bike instead of the stupid dog. And little does he know that the dog will lead him to a fateful encounter with the Fixer...

'The Fixer', written by Richard Blandford with art by Lily Durell. A seven-part story in David 'V For Vendetta' Lloyd's online comic book anthology Aces Weekly. Just £1 per issue. www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop


Sunday 20 August 2017

London in the Company of Painters - Out Now

This sumptuous visual history explores London as depicted by artists over the last few hundred years. Although the first city of London was established in the Roman period, the story of London in art really begins in the 17th century, with the rise of the panoramic city view as a painting genre, and continues to this day. Organized around nine areas or districts, the chapters move roughly from west to east across London, as does the River Thames, which acts as the city's spine. Within each area, works of art are grouped around specific locations or monuments, providing a glimpse of the city's changing and unchanging topography through the ages. Despite London's tumultuous history – the rise and fall of Empire, attacks from above in two world wars, relentless expansion into the surrounding villages and suburbs – it nevertheless becomes clear that many of the city's landmarks remain surprisingly constant.

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