Squashing Words

Books I’ve Written

Making a Leopard Monster

Superpowers

Steve’s Monsters

Making a Monster

Alien Stink Song

'Just watch the hands': The genius of Boulez's conducting

From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

James Kelman: Too Scottish?

Erica Jong on sex and ageing

"Music can change your hair"

The school bus rap

First ever fun run

Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'

The keyboard with a mind of its own