Paul Scott Reaney
Writer, nottingham, uk 2021
How To
Lose
Your Wife
When asked why I became a writer, I always confidently say: “What are you on about? I’m from Middlesbrough.” People from Middlesbrough don’t become writers. Then I started tapping away. Like Billy Elliot, I suppose. But then he was from County Durham.
This is the bit where I earnestly tell you how I fell in love with writing and couldn’t stop. A well broke inside me or summat. That’s not how it happened. Something terrible happened to me and I wanted to protect other men a little. How To Lose Your Wife is my account of what it’s like to be fall apart and put yourself back together again.
When I was a kid, I used to read the local newspaper cover-to-cover every day when I came in from school. I was interested only in facts really, fiction, art, design? They were for kids who lived outside Middlesbrough. This is starting to sound like a chip on my shoulder. Could be.
It was only when I got to university that I really started to read. and fell in love with it: the freedom, the getting lost, the sheer invention of people who were able to weave magic from nothing more than their wit and imagination.
These are the four books I've written so far. I know, Family Guy right?! I don't know how I did it either... It was tough.
Paul is one of the worst writers we have ever employed, absolutely useless. He worked for us for a decade.
Ken Scott, Scott & Jones Communciations
Football
Interviews
Neil Warnock
Gareth Southgate
Graham Taylor
Alan Kennedy
Mark Schwarzer
Antti Niemi
Roy Carroll
Columns
Staff writer
Tactics column
Scottish Premiership
Nationwide Conference
Miniature story contest
Nationwide Conference Press Officer
Rothmans’ Statistician
Movies
Interviews
Robin Hardy
Reviews
Sound It Out
Raise Ravens
Story of the year
Other Stuff
Books
Family Guy Christmas Annual 2010
Family Guy Christmas Annual 2010
The Random Book of Paul
The Random Book of Peter
The Pudding Channel
The Reaney Film Festival - Sept 2020
30 Films in 30 Days
referential.
A column about refereeing Sunday League Football. And etymology. follows us on twitter @_referential
I’ve always liked taking people apart to see how they work. I’ve always antagonised them to see where their breaking point might be. It’s not made me any friends, but friends are over-rated, some of them go and die.
Recently, I’ve become a football referee. That way, I don’t need to antagonise people to see how they work, the game looks after that. Oh, and the players.
I think football is uniquely antagonistic; all those moving parts, mistakes and decisions. It’s a collective battle for order amidst chaos. A bit like life. Every weekend, I get a front row seat to watch it, this study of human behaviour, to watch these players unfurl. And unfurl they often do.
