Colin Bateman

If you're in and around my home town of Bangor over the next fortnight, beware - I'm on the loose with a camera, making a 40 minute...

Just returned from the Hay-on-Wye literature festival in Wales where I was unexpectedly invited to appear with the great and good. I was ta...

I mentioned a while back about the mini opera I was writing with the very talented Jules Maxwell about King Billy - and then everything went...

I had a call a few months ago from the makers of 'Rebus', the tv series based on the character created by Ian Rankin to see if I...

The next children's book, TITANIC 2020, is officially published in July, although there should be copies available in June. This should...

Oh, promises promises, I should really get my finger out more often and keep these things up to date. It's a brave new world out there ...

Colin Bateman There will be no more Colin Bateman books. It's official. It seems that the name 'Colin' isn't sufficiently...

Colin Bateman It you fancy a free DVD this week, read on. I was taking the piss out of the crap DVDs being offered by the Daily Mail this w...

What more can I say! Gerrard, best player in the world!

Yup everyone's writing opera these days! I've been approached by a Dublin based opera company to write a ten minute opera, with a ...

The next children's book will hopefully be called 'The Titanic Times' - it's set on a 'new' Titanic, built in Belfa...

The title of the next novel, after much debate, will be I PREDICT A RIOT. For those of you who don't live in Northern Ireland (or inde...

I really am the laziest sod on the planet - I always have great ideas about updating this on a daily/weekly basis, but it always turns into...

Hi folks and Happy New Year, and first of all apologies to anyone who has been coming to the site looking for exciting updates only to find ...

I'm going back to my roots with the publication of a completely new weekly column called Belfast City Limits in the Belfast Newsletter ...