Author of fiction

The 4th book in the ‘Scotland Street’ series and it doesn’t disappoint. McCall Smith is the master of the understated phrase, and when...

Colm Toibin – The Blackwater Lightship A story about family relationships and family tragedy. Helen has not spoken to her mother for a...

Paula Hawkins gets into the minds of three women, cleverly changing viewpoint as the story unfolds. Rachel, Megan and Anna. They all...

477 pages that I couldn’t put down. I’m a slow reader, but this novel was digested in 4 days. Kate Atkinson provides us with a sideways...

Wonderfully un-PC and very funny. You will discover on the first page of chapter one why Sefton Goldberg is ‘as blind as a school...

Karen Joy Fowler constructs a fictional story partly based on personal experience of living with a family steeped in psychology. I will...

In his author questionnaire at the end of the book, Liam Brown tells us that ‘Danny’s head was a pretty horrendous place to spend any...

I met Kerry at Dudley Library in November at a writers' networking morning. She read from her novel, 'The Black Country', and along with...

On 23rd May 2015, John Forbes Nash and his wife, Alicia, were killed in a car crash while in a taxi in New Jersey, United States. Sylvia...

I'm feeling generous. Between 11th and 13th February Amazon are holding a special promotion of my Kindle books. Both 'Could it be That...

A good friend of mine, Ben Stone, invited me to his studio. Here, he's just practising a number called 'Hero' for the first time.

She’s there again today. A tall, thin woman; probably in her twenties. An old-fashioned hairstyle, like they used to have during the...

'She Blames Me', from 'Banfield Tales', the collection of short stories. - available on the next blog on this page.

I would like to wish all readers of my website blog a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is my first year as an author. I...

Not too many managed to get these right. Some surprising names for groups of animals. Here goes - you'll have to tell me if you think...

Now, don't worry, I will be giving you the answers, but can you give the group names for the following animals? You know the sort of...

A few people were not so keen on some elements of the first edition. We've made a few changes and also something of a surprise in stall....

For all Doctor Who fans. In an old episode of Doctor Who, a production assistant managed to leave his hand behind (pardon the pun) for...

"People do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing". - a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 -...

Extract from 'Victor' (from the short story collection 'Banfield Tales'): "My wife calls me Victor Meldrew. You can probably guess why,...