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 […]
I have carried out a major review of my writing to update and re-present my twelve books which I have completed to date. The first step has been to group six of the novels together into a series which I have decided to call the AMR Series (Adventure, Mystery, Romance). There is a new page […]
Last October my wife Sue was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and a halt was called to writing activity while we fought the invader. It has been a tough winter and spring with Sue going through the pain and distress of a heavy course of chemotherapy and then major surgery. Meanwhile I experienced a steep learning […]