I enjoyed one of those wonderful events recently; you know the one, when you pick up a random book in the library and it turns out to be...

Those who know me realise my reviews are less a blow by blow account of a book (I don't like giving things away), and more a...

Sometimes, with some authors, when you finish one of their works you have to give it time to settle, let it 'become', before casting...

This week I borrowed a few shorter pieces of works and short story anthologies from the library. These included more shorts by Du Maurier...

I really enjoyed this book. A novel or a novella? At 29,000 words I guess the latter in this day and age. Even my slow and healing brain...

I seem to have been editing for an age, but I come close now to being satisfied with a final edit of ’76 and the Odd 93’. I first penned...

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...

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...