
After BREXIT, what now for the United Kingdom?
This week, British prime minister, Theresa May looked rattled. She was doing a Trump by walking away from hints that she might have triggered the infamous Article 50 this week to, yes,…

Blue Notes, Still Frames – my new Brighton novel gets a rock ‘n roll launch in Brighton.
Have A Host, Ellis Collins with Octopuses and me at the Blue Notes, Still Frames launch. It was a great night, last Thursday, when my new Brighton novel, Blue Notes, Still…

My new website is launched today

It’s St David’s Day and that means it’s daffodil opening time here in Lewes, UK.
Midway through February and the rain has come my way, here in Lewes, UK. It might get a guy down, damp feet and water down the back of the neck, but,…

I try to squeeze the great composer Sibelius into a miniature Fibonacci box.
Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957) I have two new Fibonacci poems published today in the splendid Fibonacci specialist journal, The Fib Review. It’s always a challenge to try to squeeze…

Forget the Oscars camp chaos but don’t forget three great films and four great actors.
Moonlight I hope the Oscars Ceremony 2017 doesn’t just get remembered for the chaos that broke our last night over the winner of the best film. OK, it’s extraordinary that…

Hopeful signs bursting out all over Lewes.
As we reach the middle of February here in Lewes, UK, our winter is releasing its frozen grip out there and I can already see signs of hope out there on the…

Things are changing here at Wolfiewolfgang
Mr Nnamdi Nwachukwu is working on my website at the moment so look out for a few changes. They will all be for the good – I hope. Let me now…

My new Brighton novel will be launched at Brighton’s Have A Word in March
My new novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames is now officially published and generally available from online sites as well as bookstores and it’s now time to announce the book’s Brighton launch which…

I like being a two-novel writer.
Copies of my new Brighton novel arrived today – hurray! Now that I have the actual physical objects, I really feel like it’s been published. Stephen Dearsley, from my first novel, Stephen…

My new Brighton novel is published!
Great news! My new novel has arrived. It’s always a thrilling moment to see it in print after the three years of drafts and redrafts. Yes, it really exists – that’s my…

Come and hear me read from my new novel – published this month.
I shall be reading from my about to be published novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames, (Ward Wood Publishing – http://wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-blue-notes-still-frames.htm ) on Thursday the 12th January here in Lewes UK. If you…

Here comes another honours list – more knights-in-armour and pantomime dames to join the lords and ladies in our divided society.
So the great British honours system has announced the latest list of honourees today. Known as the New Years Honours, it bestows ludicrously anachronistic and socially divisive titles to British citizens seen…

My website is eight years old today – this was the way we were in 2008
An optimistic Wolfiewolfgang in 2008 It was eight years ago today that I started this website – it seems a world away from now as we look to another new year…

Three reasons not to be merry this Christmas.
I’m mostly quite a cheerful optimistic type of person but, really, looking at the world as we move towards Christmas, what is there to be cheerful and optimistic about? Well, I just…