CHRIS WEST

Carl Gustav Jung is famous for his listing of human archetypes. He listed four main ones. No he didn’t; it was seven. No, it was twelve....

Another great Kings Lynn Literature festival last weekend, despite the hugely regrettable absence of Tony and Lizzie due to Covid (Rob...

The psychologist can also enter the argument. How does the human pleasure system actually work? ‘How to live a pleasurable life’ is as...

Watching a documentary last night, where someone quoted Walter Pater. I was intrigued, and did some research. He was a Victorian academic...

Eurovision, lockdown style. No celebrating crowds, no dancers or pyrotechnics, no voting... The EBU could have chosen to keep as close to...

Lynn 2020. A memorable Saturday afternoon session – they’re all good in their own ways, but this one was special. A fine turnout, despite...

In the end, however, what drives a great crime novel is a sense of ever-rising puzzlement in the reader. Every lead seems to make the situat

I’m currently working on reviving four crime novels I wrote back in the 1990s, for republication. Most of the time this is a delightful...

Just back from the 2019 Kings Lynn Fiction Festival. Another great weekend immersed in the world of books, stories and writing, with...

I don’t want this blog to become morbid, but another once-bright light has been extinguished with the early death of Keith Flint. I’m...