by tim_bell | Sep 30, 2016 | Latest News
It’s amazing how one’s material can be re-arranged. Some years ago I was talking with a chap in the publishing game who said it was obvious, to him anyway, that my book about Trainspotting must start with my critical analysis of the book itself. So I went...
by tim_bell | Aug 31, 2016 | Latest News
I hope they’re not calling me curmudgeonly, out on the street there. They could be. Not entirely without reason, it has to be said. That’s the Edinburgh Festival over for another year, I’m told. How many shows did I go to? One. And that was with a...
by tim_bell | Jul 30, 2016 | Latest News
‘Ere the month is out, I must blog. It is written. So, dear reader(s? – more than one? – that would be nice), I blog. (does “to blog” exist as a verb? – Ed.) You must not think, dear reader(s?), that I blog for blogging’s...
by tim_bell | Jun 24, 2016 | Latest News
Oh dear me. What went wrong? It all felt good on Leith Walk, campaigning yesterday afternoon for an IN vote. Maybe as many as 20% of people to whom I gave a flyer and had a brief word of encouragement were European nationals living here and unable to vote. It turns...
by tim_bell | Jun 22, 2016 | Latest News
The day before – tomorrow is the big day, and I can only worry about what the situation will be on Friday morning. With many others, I am seriously depressed at the level of conversation. Basically, the Leave side, making its appeal to the heart not the head,...
by tim_bell | Jun 13, 2016 | Latest News
I don’t know what they are going to call the film of Porno the book – they can’t give it the title of the book, who could ever Google that? “Trainspotting 2” is all I’ve heard. It’s a bit feeble, it’s clearly trading on...
by tim_bell | May 7, 2016 | Latest News
There is always an interest in Trainspotting, often taking the form of a look at how Leith has changed – or not changed – since the 1980s days of the heroin epidemic. Recently a French journo and his photographer were in town. See the images here....
by tim_bell | May 1, 2016 | Latest News
There was me, just 24 hours ago, walking through the Tiergarten in Berlin and coming towards the Brandenburg Gate. Cruelly, The Wall ran just to the west of the Gate, separating it from the Reichstag a few hundred yards away. Now the line of the despised Wall is...
by tim_bell | Apr 23, 2016 | Latest News
I was at my Stranger Than Fiction writers’ group the other evening, in the pub, of course. Some people say that non-fiction writers must be boring, but I don’t think that’s true at all. I just wouldn’t go if it was true. Anyway, this month we...
by tim_bell | Mar 27, 2016 | Latest News
Just finished – it’s never actually finalised till you sign off and it goes a publisher – my chapter on Trainspotting the book; it’s the longest chapter in my book. Long ago I realised that the ending of Trainspotting is more than a tribute to...
