‘The Martian’ Review

SPOILER ALERT – I ruin the plot for book and film here. I read Andy Weir’s The Martian a few months ago and loved it so much that, although I normally race along to any sci-fi film on offer, I was slightly reluctant to see Ridley Scott’s new film....

Why I wrote The Boy Who Fell from the Sky

The idea for The Boy Who Fell from the Sky came out of another novel I was writing, but I ended up putting on hold. I was originally writing a post-apocalyptic story set 400 years in the future. I built this whole huge world (in my imagination, of course) and peopled...