Oxford Literary Festival…

March 27, 2013

The Writers’ Round Table event on Saturday turned out to be more of a long, narrow table on a stage in one of  Oxford’s hidden corners — a room off the Bodleian Library where Charles II used to assemble his parliament when it couldn’t meet in London. Having been born in Oxford, grown up outside, and (unimaginatively, perhaps) been […]

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Free short story book…

March 27, 2013

A version of one of the first short stories I ever wrote is featured in a short story collection that is FREE on Kindle. Literally nothing to be lost by downloading; link below — http://www.amazon.co.uk/Short-Sentence-stories-dastardly-ebook/dp/B00BS7PNYM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364411980&sr=1-1  

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Box of Signs…

March 15, 2013

Much excitement today: UPS delivered a box of freshly minted copies of SIGN OF THE CROSS. Undeniable thrill in holding a physical book in your hand. Here is a snap of the box before our toddler son began manically unpacking it…

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Library royalties…

February 28, 2013

Just received £28.14 in library royalties. Time to put down a deposit on that Caribbean villa…

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Contract killer…

February 27, 2013

Red-letter day today as the contracts arrived in the post from Bloomsbury for Spike books 3 and 4. Am currently 20,000 words into Spike 3 –can reveal it is set wholly in Gibraltar, but otherwise… work in progress. Needless to say, I signed on the dotted line with undignified haste and posted the envelope back this afternoon…

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‘No Alibis’ – the reckoning…

February 27, 2013

Reading aloud the words ‘the breasts have been sliced from her body’ then looking out into the audience and seeing your father-in-law raising a sceptical eyebrow… interesting moment. That aside, the ‘No Alibis’ event last Saturday was a joy — for me at least — thanks to the fantastic welcome from the owner of the shop, Dave […]

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Belfast event…

January 16, 2013

Belfast’s — nay, Ireland’s — finest crime bookshop, No Alibis (http://www.noalibis.com/), will be hosting a talk from the author of ‘Shadow of the Rock’ on Sat Feb 23rd at 3pm.  Given that my in-laws are all Northern Irish, there will be no pressure, no, none at all.  Please feel free to drop by if you want to see a […]

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Come to the Oxford Literary Festival…

January 14, 2013

Springtime beneath the dreaming spires… what better way to spend a Saturday in March than at the Oxford Literary Festival? Am lucky enough to be joining Matthew Reynolds, Tim Leach and Kerry Young at a ‘Writers’ Round Table’ (chaired by Rachel Hore) on 23rd March at 2pm at the Bodleian. Come see the jousting — […]

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Jazz FM Interview

December 19, 2012

Every Saturday, Jazz FM has a books and music programme called ‘Taking Notes’, sponsored by Waterstone’s. ‘Shadow of the Rock’ was one of their featured books; click here to listen to the author in conversation with the extremely genial David Freeman…

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12 Books of Christmas…

December 17, 2012

The princess of crime fiction bloggers, Rhian Davies (aka ‘crimeficreader’), has picked ‘Shadow of the Rock’ as one of her ’12 Books of Christmas’. Good to see Sidney Chambers in there too: no religious festival would be complete without his genial company… http://itsacrimeuk.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/a-book-a-day-for-12-days-of-christmas-crimeficreaders-selection-part-2/

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