So now writing the book isn't all sitting on front of my keyboard. The other day I went on location to Glasgow to check out Barrowlands, where Tommy and Davie Mitchell go to the Iggy Pop gig. Tommy has his crazed epiphany as The Man looks straight at him and sings...

If you see a man called John Harvey going about, buy him a pint. He's a playwright to trade. He read the drafts of my book and said to himself 'It's good, very good. As answers to exam questions, that is. But where's the story, where's the plot, where's the drama,...

In Edinburgh for the festivities? Up in Edinburgh they call you to the so-called 'underground' tours, by which they mean you guddle about in the cellars of the Old Town. We mean something different by 'underground' in Leith. Full of references to Trainspotting the...