Kester Brewin

One interesting repercussion of the advent of the e-reader may well be the disappearance of the bookshelf. Before you scoff and say never just remember how resistant I/we were to putting our CDs and vinyl away. But away they have been put, and the solitary ipod is now the norm.
So if e-readers become more ubiquitous [...]

It’s pretty much a year to the day since I began writing my new book, and I now that the contracts are all exchanged I thought it was time to pop the lid off and start getting the word out there.
Don’t go rushing to Amazon just yet – it’ll be on shelves in July next [...]

Just back from holiday, and just hear that Thomas Pynchon has a new book out.
For any fans of this most difficult, funny, bawdy and darkly brilliant writers these are nervous times: will we understand a word of it, let alone the many hundred-thousands of words that some of his books can run to. The early [...]

This could change publishing – and book selling – for ever.

I think the time is right to drop the curtain on ‘Signs of Emergence’  / ‘The Complex Christ’ / ‘Der Jesus Faktor’ and move on. The idea of this blog has been to give some space to extend the ideas presented in that book, and, personally, I feel that’s been successful.
But you shouldn’t keep flogging [...]