IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

When I wrote a book about Oliver Stone, I coined a name, 'The Thumper' to describe the moment when, in virtually all his movies, t...

I've written a double-tribute to two Philadelphia Eagle greats who died in April, along with a look back at the Eagles' 1960 NFL cha...

I re-read The Friends Of Eddie Coyle recently, and then realised it was the 50th anniversary of the novel's first publication, so I...

With the Korean War underway, Naval Lieutenant Dave Young has been called back into service. Young, who had been doing a graduate degree ...

I have done a long essay about Don Shula, the NFL coach with the most wins in history, and coach of the only undefeated Super Bowl champions...

My obituary of the great character actor  Allen Garfield  went up on the Daily Telegraph's website on 30 April. I missed it at the time...

I like to think of Parlour Game as a mini-sonnet, but it didn't start off that way. I originally jotted down lines way back in 2010, a...

It's Paris, 1950, the Second World War is still being fought and Resistance fighters battle the Nazis, in a guerrila war punctuated b...

I actually read this Maigret novel, not while in Corona lockdown, but its polar opposite, on a flight from London to Miami, to cover the ...

Because I have been working in the past couple of months to generate traffic on two other platforms, my American football content on my Patr...

Camino Winds has a selling point which neither author nor publisher could have expected. With coronavirus sweeping through care homes, k...

I've written a long piece about Steve Dalkowski, the legendary lefty, who died last week. It's up at Medium, and if you use this lin...