Tube Diary: 3rd April Traveling up the escalator, a poster advertising an event called The Alzheimer’s Show.   Tube Diary: 5th April Outside Shepherd’s Bush station. Gates closed. Person under the train. People tutting, complaining about being   

Mimi Galore , otherwise known as Denise ‘The Lady’ Flower, is a photographer who creates dazzling photographs in collaboration with the sitter. When you arrange to be ‘Mimified’ you never know how the photo will turn out. And that’s what   

I have a story in the new Queer Episodes anthology. Queer Episodes is available to buy through the Little Episodes website and is £10.99, a percentage of the sales will go to The Albert Kennedy Trust, this organisation assist   

It has taken a year of recording, editing and adding sound effects, but the audiobook for Goodbye to Soho is now available.   When I started this project I wanted it to be more like a radio play than a   

An interview I did with Kairos (who do the LGBT Soho walking tours). Two hours of history for a fiver. It’s worth it! You get to hear about the 18th Century Molly Houses where an undercover investigator noted:   

I’ve edited a video. It’s taken from the audiobook of Goodbye to Soho (release date May 2013). I’m narrating, with voices by David Benson and film footage by Jonathan Hodgson.   Click here

This is a diary entry snippet from my audiobook, Goodbye to Soho (Release Date: May 2013). I’m narrating and my friend David Benson provides all the voices.   It’s about a day I spent with Quentin Crisp in   

Tube Diary: 28th January   Wake. Eat. Tube. Work. Tube. Eat. Sleep. Repeat til death.   Tube Diary: 11th February   Bored with my book. So let’s see what’s going on here then…Okay. Opposite: a girl (twenties, all   

Tube Diary: 2nd November Central line. With Dom (after a night out in Soho). He’s next to me snapping. I’m next to him typing. Two diarists at work.   Tube Diary: 6th November 7:18am and I’m on a   

Me and Tim Arnold on BBC London talking about Soho with the lovely Joanne Good  (with beautiful Soho songs from Tim’s new album).   Click here

I’ll be one of the judges for the Green Carnation Prize for LGBT literature for 2013.   Click here

An article I wrote for the Kensington and Chelsea Review on the ancient Greek words for love (page 22).   Click here  

Jorge’s in the front room, crashed out on the day bed and I’m here in the bedroom, in my dressing gown, staring at my laptop, thinking, ‘Maybe I should write something.’ So…I want to write about a recent event   

  In 1846 Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Match Seller (also known as The Little Match Girl). His short story was only 1000 words long but it has endured, like good stories do. Although it still has   

A piece I wrote for Polari Magazine’s LGBT History Month, on the album that changed my life.   Click here

She stares at her clenched hand.   Seven. Gotta get seven.   She unfolds her fingers. ‘One. Two. Three.’ Need seven. Gotta ‘ave seven. ‘Four. Five.’ She stops counting. Five? Thought I ‘ad six! She digs her free   

Here’s an article I wrote for Pride Life Magazine (Winter 2012). It’s a walk through Soho, a love song to my favourite place.   Click here  

I first saw Pam back in February 2007. She was shuffling down Old Compton Street, like something from Beatrix Potter, eyes scanning left and right, a half smoked fag in one hand, plastic bag in the other –   

11am. I’m in the little coffee shop on the corner of Old Compton Street and Frith Street, writing in my notebook. It’s quiet inside; a couple of queens gossiping by the window, an elderly man in the corner reading   

Leslie’s finger, long, delicate and recently manicured, moved along the page, line by line, with surprising speed, the speed suggesting that he wasn’t really taking in what was being read at all. Which was true. He wasn’t. And   

Wake up. Rub my eyes. Open them. Where am I? Who am I? What day is this?   Slowly take in the room; the collection of Jonathan Adler vases above the armoire, the tortoiseshell jewellry box on the   

Strictly make you scream? Top Gear makes your want throw your tinsel at the TV in rage, then at 7pm click below to hear Marlene Dietrich – Beyond Top Hat and Tails – a radio documentary about why   

An article I wrote for the latest Beige Magazine (Winter edition page 29)   Click here

Two nominations for Goodbye to Soho from authors Jonathan Kemp and Rupert Smith.   Click below   Band of Thebes  

Tube Diary: 1st October On the way home from a book reading with guests Immodesty Blaize, Radcliffe Royds and hostess with the mostest, Damian Barr. I was on last, necked a vodka and coke just before, so went on bursting   

Here I am sharing the stage with the husband (making his stage debut and getting all the laughs) at one of Damian Barr‘s fab Shoreditch House Literary Salon events (this one promoting the Soho Stories app).   Click here  

Soho Athletic gym.   7:15pm. There’s hardly anyone around. The café bar is empty. The only sound, the receptionist washing glasses, the manager ringing up till receipts and the distant sound of club music floating through the gym. I   

Tube Dairy: 1st September Empty platform. Glance at myself in the corridor mirror. Hmmm. Not too bad. Train arrives. No seats. Oh well. Lean on the half-seat by the door. I’ve got 20 minutes to get to the   

I’ll be reading a spooky Soho story here in November. It’s only £5 for a whole night of stories. Come along! All proceeds to a cancer charity.   Click here    

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