The Grey DogI raise my snout to sniff the sweet air. I seek his familiar smell, his rough hand on my coat, his call to hunt. We ran together after...
Five Poems for January (2022)We were young then We were young then, when the bright light of our soul lit the way We were young then, when the night was brighter than...
Answer me this then!If you pick your nose all the time, why doesn’t your head cave in? If god made man in his image, why do we look like monkeys? If there...
The 12 Days of Covid Christmas On the first day of Christmas, Covid gave to me, a lateral flow test free. On the second day of Christmas, Covid gave to me, two metres...
A Halloween Book. The Son: Gaelic, Gastly, Ghostly!I will begin with the end, for everything in here, as you will see, arrives at an inevitable consequence: death. I have emerged from the...
The Castle, where no one looks but everyone sees!The Castle, is the Prequal to The Father and is set in the largest Victorian psychiatric hospital in Europe, where long stay patients are...
Killing the Father takes its place in the Family of Books!An epic book, 465 pages in 4 parts, this is a classic crime drama. To read Killing the Father is to encapsulate everything in The Father,...
Killing the Father has arrived!Killing the Father is a classic crime thriller set in Gangland Glasgow. The Family, a collective of crime families, led by an unknown...
Secret Library - Café ThinkingToday I’m delighted to welcome Tom O Keenan, whose latest book in the Sean Rooney, Psychosleuth series, The Son, is out this month. It...
The Grey Dog of MeobleThe Grey Dog of Meoble - The Cù Glas Mheobail The Grey Dog of Meoble or in the Gaelic, the Cù Glas Mheobail, or the Cu Glas for short is...
Highland Noir! Dhubh Gaidhealtachd, the Black Highlands Crime exists away from Scotland’s gritty cities in the hills, glens and communities of highlands and islands. Murder in a small community...
An Evening of Literary FunSo looking forward to my author event at the Arisaig Hotel on 26 November 2019. We are going to talk about my books, The Father and The...
THE FAMILY Book Launch - Waterstones Byres Road, Glasgow, 17th of October 2019THE FAMILY You are what you do, Stephen Fry says. We are verbs or nouns: a doing thing or a thing. We are all doers. Me, I write, when...
The Family Arrives!A momentous day indeed as a crate of boxes (on a pallet indeed!) of The Family and even more boxes of The Father arrives at GlenanCross....
Edinburgh Kulture!A great day at Edinburgh Book Festival, then to some old Edinburgh pubs of course (as you do), where some great luminaries imbibed:...
Scrawls and scrolls.To London, to wallow in Orwell, bask in Beckett, hangout like Hemingway. Book four Killing Father is in my head but it needs fleshing...
Brexit and Books!In August 2016, the Publishing Association said it needed a 'clear plan and timetable to provide certainty'. It said one in four...
Shawdowplay - Joseph O'ConnorJust had to share the first paragraph of the first chapter of Shadowplay: "Out of the gathering swirls of mist roars the hot black...