The Favourite – Review
📽 If you have not seen this film, drop whatever you are doing and book tickets now. It has been nominated for ten Oscars and if it doesn’t…
A running buffet of the thoughts and ideas that crowd into a writer’s life.
📽 If you have not seen this film, drop whatever you are doing and book tickets now. It has been nominated for ten Oscars and if it doesn’t…
Before I became a full time writer I taught at Lincoln Minster School for many years. Just before Christmas I went back to see a scintillating performance of…
During the course of the year, I have, from time to time, offered up my opinions on Facebook and other social media about books, films and plays which…
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde – Lady Windermere’s Fan Two or three reviewers of my…
I don’t know what other writers feel when they are asked this perfectly fair and reasonable question. I tend to have a version of the blurb available…
My collection of short stories, Cherries, is making its way into the world. Humphrey and Jack, my second novel, will be launched in the New Year. Time for some reading and a couple of reviews. Today, it is the turn of the notorious emperor, Caligula by the prolific Simon Turney.
My current work in progress is a selection of short stories to be called simply Cherries. I am busy curating these tales (as the current fashionable jargon has…
“Who is ‘The Countess’?” is the novel’s smouldering conundrum and it is never fully answered until the surprising and delightful last pages, and perhaps not even then. The…
After twenty-five consecutive days of work, weekends included, and four meticulous edits, Humphrey and Jack is ready to go off to my editor. I look forward to some…
At 11.42 hours this morning, I completed the first draft of Humphrey and Jack. It is a good feeling. I have been working on it now for a…