Guardian Article

Guardian Article

  Alan was recently interviewed by Alexandra Topping at the Guardian, you can read the article here.
Bradford Literary Festival

Bradford Literary Festival

I find it incredible that Harold Wilson was Chancellor of Bradford University whilst also serving as Prime Minister. Granted Chancellor is a ceremonial position but there are plenty of ceremonies and Harold apparently turned up to most. This year marks the...
Books By The Beach – Scarborough

Books By The Beach – Scarborough

To Scarborough on Sunday for my annual fix of words and wonderment at Books By The Beach. Given that our home is in East Yorkshire, this is our local lit fest. At the forefront in this photo is the wonderful Heather French who, as Scarborough’s librarian, started the...
Illminster

Illminster

I appear at many literary festivals but am the Patron of only one – Illminster. This year is the tenth anniversary and I was pleased to be in Somerset on Tuesday (June 2nd) to open the celebration. Here I am on stage with Lulu Taylor who interviewed me about my...
North Kensington

North Kensington

The Playground Theatre was founded a few years ago by the actor Peter Tate in a disused bus depot on Latimer Road, London W10. As readers of my childhood memoir ‘This Boy’ may recall, I grew up in that vicinity – which is now often wrongly referred...