Retrovival | Douglas Thompson's Blog
My new novel ‘Retrovival’ is published today, Monday 16th June 2025, in eBook and Paperback by Elsewhen Press. In some ways I’ve been trying to avoid writing this…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
My new novel ‘Retrovival’ is published today, Monday 16th June 2025, in eBook and Paperback by Elsewhen Press. In some ways I’ve been trying to avoid writing this…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Today I tasted a Caramac bar for the first time in forty years I didn’t even know they still made those things it was like biting into 1975 pure sugar zero guilt like a wind from another worl…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Here’s one for the stamp collectors among you… a parcel from San Paulo, Brazil. A tribute anthology to the writer Boris Vian, published by Raphus Press which includes my short story ‘Let’s Get Pataphysical’. It just goes to confirm my … Continue reading →| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Almost as if Nature can read calendars and numbers, the 1st of May in Glasgow this year seemed to herald a distinct rise in temperature and the opening of numerous leaves and a rain of blossom. It …| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Here is what December has brought through the letterbox… As well as copies of my novella ‘A Man Worth Killing’ and the Eibonvale anthology ‘At The Lighthouse’ as menti…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
It’s somehow just like me to catch Covid-19 for the first time three years after everyone else. I always was a late developer. Fortunately it looks like I am going to survive unscathed when I…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Summer is nearly here and the garden has exploded into a miniature jungle, the greenhouse is full of thrashing fronds of triffids trying to get out and strangle us, or more hopefully feed us. In te…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
No matter how many years I live through I am always surprised by how I fail to remember the subtle details of spring. How for instance, it inhabits winter while winter is still alive and gradually …| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Yes, they are getting warmer. Birds are still singing here in the mornings, usually unheard of in November. And other strange things such as deer visiting our garden, even falling asleep their with…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Not to be confused with Event Horizon, but yes, like the proverbial buses all arriving at once again, autumn is bringing with it an unusual number of public speaking engagements, as you can see fro…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
