Hi folks, I’m honoured that Dubray Books have chosen to highlight my new book, Fifty Fifty. They’ve been a great supporter of my books and you couldn’t ask for a …
Category: Fiction
Now that we’re all housebound, what we need is a book that will whisk us off to someplace else. Fancy travelling to Italy? Donna Leon‘s series of crime novels set …
Meeting an author can be fraught with difficulties: If I don’t get on with them, will I want to read their book? What if I love the author, but hate …
When I open a fantasy book for the first time, I automatically seek out a map that will divulge the world that I have just decided to explore. There is …
One of the things that I’ve been missing most over the chaotic past few weeks has been getting to gush to customers over what recent and upcoming releases I’ve been …
It starts with almost nothing. A throwaway anecdote from a friend about the BSE crisis; about the late-nineties when the cows – and the country – were going mad. You …
The Temple House Vanishing is a dark and, I hope, atmospheric tale of desire set in a convent school in the early 1990s. The story emerged from a kind of …
Greetings! The German playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote that he carried a brick on his shoulder in order that the world would know what his house was like. If I …
Even though I spend so much of my time using many words in endless sentences to pitch my favourite books to people, it’s quite easy to catch my interest when …
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