On Swearing
It was 1982, and I was sitting in the lounge chatting with my in-laws when I used the fatal word in conversation. Yes, I said “bum.” My...
On Readers
This may sound a bit strange but the one thing that hadn’t occurred to me when The Seven Letters was published was that people might...
A Fine Collaboration
The email popped into my inbox out of the blue. It was from an artist called Adrian Brooks, based in Dorchester-on-Thames, and he was...
No twist!
What an absolute treat we had from the BBC with its sumptuous productions of Little Women and The Miniaturist, I loved every second of...
A Year Ago
A year ago today I stood in front of seventy people and launched my novel, The Seven Letters, at The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in...
Exmoor and The Great Sketchbox Initiative.
A wonderful concept that allows everyone to be a poet or artist