Michael Hillier

A number of you have asked how I got into writing – This is not a simple question to answer for me because my writing is varied and not easily classified or catalogued. I spent my early and teenage years in South Devon and this has provided a source for much of my writing, especially […]

Today I am relaunching Dancing with Spies. This is a completely revised and re-edited edition of the novel first published in 2011. The novel is entirely a work of fiction and doesn´t set out to portray anything which actually happened in and around Dubrovnik in autumn 1991 at the start of the Yugoslav Civil War. […]

Hello from the Isle of Wight where autumn has come in with a splash. A large number of birds are visiting the Yar estuary on their way south to their winter habitats. The wet weather has delayed the turning colour of the deciduous trees and the resulting fall of leaves. The grass is a bright […]

Hello from the Isle of Wight, in Southern England, where I am now living. This area has a proud literary tradition. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate and author of the famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade lived here. If I walk down the road from my house, I can see his monument on […]