I'm really busy editing and so my life is pretty much that at the moment. So I have chosen to share an old post from January 2015 and an...

Originally written in mid-2016, this is an old post lifted from my old site. I hope you won't mind. It revisits my return to reading...

Today I treated myself. No writing. Well, what I mean is no creative writing as yet. There’s still four hours of today left, and after...

This week I’d like to raise awareness of... ‘Inside the Bell Jar’ A literary journal and brave new venture, this online journal aims to...

This week I’ve dipped my toe into horror twice. The first by reading Printer’s Devil Court, by the author Susan Hill, and the second by...

There was a time I hated Twitter. Now I love it. It’s about routine. Every day I write. I have to. It’s not about the number of words for...

Have you ever heard of Cockayne Hatley? Nor had I until I stumbled upon it one day with my daughter, Finty. We were searching for...

Today I finished reading Poe. In England, teachers only ever teach you about English authors; at least that was what it was like in my...

The 39 Steps. Surely we all know this one. I loved the movie (the one with Robert Powell) and I've never read the book. So here I am in...

This week I read two books. Sort of. The first was the small and skinny 'The Embassy of Cambodia' by Zadie Smith and the second the...