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Today! Corbett Community Library, 103 Torridon Road SE6 3AE
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Today! Corbett Community Library, 103 Torridon Road SE6 3AE
This event is now only 48 hours away. Be wonderful to see some of you there. Corbett Community Library, 103 Torridon Road, SE6 1RQ (10 min walk from Hither Green station)
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This event is now only 48 hours away. Be wonderful to see some of you there. Corbett Community Library, 103 Torridon Road, SE6 1RQ (10 min walk from Hither Green station)
This Saturday 2pm. Corbett Community Library, 103 Torridon Road, SE6 1RQ. Come and say hello! You might even do a bit of Christmas shopping ...
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This Saturday 2pm. Corbett Community Library, 103 Torridon Road, SE6 1RQ. Come and say hello! You might even do a bit of Christmas shopping ...
My latest book Unhead Voices is dedicated to six friends who read avidly. One of them, a talented artist, has made me this lovely coaster as a thank you. I'm delighted with it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My latest book Unhead Voices is dedicated to six friends who read avidly. One of them, a talented artist, has made me this lovely coaster as a thank you. I'm delighted with it.
Are you Christmas shopping today? Maybe your family and friends would like to read more about some of the minor characters in some of their favourite works of literature or adaptations of them? Amazon, Waterstones etc etc.
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Are you Christmas shopping today? Maybe your family and friends would like to read more about some of the minor characters in some of their favourite works of literature or adaptations of them? Amazon, Waterstones etc etc.
Be absolutely delighted to see some of you there. Corbett Community Library. 103 Torridon Road, London SE6 1RQ (about 10 min walk from Hither Green station).
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Be absolutely delighted to see some of you there. Corbett Community Library. 103 Torridon Road, London SE6 1RQ (about 10 min walk from Hither Green station).
Love to see you there. Corbett Community Library, Torridon Road, London, SE6.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Love to see you there. Corbett Community Library, Torridon Road, London, SE6.
I've just submitted my new book to PLR so that I get a royalty if it's borrowed from libaries (vg scheme). It's my FIFTY NINTH title there. Lots of re-issues of text books etc included but I pride myself that no one could call me idle!
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I've just submitted my new book to PLR so that I get a royalty if it's borrowed from libaries (vg scheme). It's my FIFTY NINTH title there. Lots of re-issues of text books etc included but I pride myself that no one could call me idle!
If you like my book and if you review on Amazon (please, please please do it!) don't hint you know me - if you do. Apparently the site will reject reviews if there's any suggestion that reviewer and writer are acquainted.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If you like my book and if you review on Amazon (please, please please do it!) don't hint you know me - if you do. Apparently the site will reject reviews if there's any suggestion that reviewer and writer are acquainted.
Reader just told me she liked my story "Aaron" and will now read Silas Marner. This is EXACTLY the response I was hoping for. Hurrah! If you haven't read my Unheard Voices: Tales From the Margins of Literature maybe give them a whirl this weekend? I promise they're entertaining.
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Reader just told me she liked my story "Aaron" and will now read Silas Marner. This is EXACTLY the response I was hoping for. Hurrah! If you haven't read my Unheard Voices: Tales From the Margins of Literature maybe give them a whirl this weekend? I promise they're entertaining.
Everyone I tell about this says "What an interesting idea!". Lovely feedback is beginning to come in. Try it and see what you think. Amazon and all good (are there any bad ones? bookshops.
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Everyone I tell about this says "What an interesting idea!". Lovely feedback is beginning to come in. Try it and see what you think. Amazon and all good (are there any bad ones? bookshops.
"[Mira] is the kind of short story that lingers in the mind long afterwards. So many felicities too in the diction - exceptionally fine writing ... indubitably, a formidable well of experience and sensibility within [this author]"
I'm in bits 😀😀😀
I'm in bits 😀😀😀
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"[Mira] is the kind of short story that lingers in the mind long afterwards. So many felicities too in the diction - exceptionally fine writing ... indubitably, a formidable well of experience and sensibility within [this author]"
I'm in bits 😀😀😀
I'm in bits 😀😀😀
Not long now.
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Not long now.
Trying to get the Christmas shopping out of the way and looking for stocking fillers? This might fit the bill.
October 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Trying to get the Christmas shopping out of the way and looking for stocking fillers? This might fit the bill.
Just back (last night) from a fab five day holiday with GD2 (aka Jasmine Elkin) in Copenhagen. What larks! Enjoyed myself so much that I really didn't - think much about work. Result? 184 unread emails. No prizes for guessing what I'm doing this morning now that J has left and washing is on line.
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Just back (last night) from a fab five day holiday with GD2 (aka Jasmine Elkin) in Copenhagen. What larks! Enjoyed myself so much that I really didn't - think much about work. Result? 184 unread emails. No prizes for guessing what I'm doing this morning now that J has left and washing is on line.
Well it's 01 October and just in case your thoughts are tending to early Christmas shopping: It's an ideal gift for anyone interested in reading/writing or just a cheerful upbeat read.
October 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Well it's 01 October and just in case your thoughts are tending to early Christmas shopping: It's an ideal gift for anyone interested in reading/writing or just a cheerful upbeat read.
Needy plea: If you bought my This Writing Business from Amazon (and liked it!) could you please stick a review on their site? It looks a bit lonely at present and Amazon reviews really do help to drive sales. A sentence will do. THANK YOU.
August 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Needy plea: If you bought my This Writing Business from Amazon (and liked it!) could you please stick a review on their site? It looks a bit lonely at present and Amazon reviews really do help to drive sales. A sentence will do. THANK YOU.
Guess who this is, standing outside Shakespeare's Birthplace in 1954? It was a "working" day on the road with my Dad. He never saw a Shakespeare play in his life but clearly thought it should be part of my education. Prescience eh?
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Guess who this is, standing outside Shakespeare's Birthplace in 1954? It was a "working" day on the road with my Dad. He never saw a Shakespeare play in his life but clearly thought it should be part of my education. Prescience eh?
As someone who reads 3 a week I am seriously disturbed by the stat I keep seeing that the average adult reads just 3 books a year. Books have the capacity to change lives in a way that I firmly believe nothing else can.
July 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
As someone who reads 3 a week I am seriously disturbed by the stat I keep seeing that the average adult reads just 3 books a year. Books have the capacity to change lives in a way that I firmly believe nothing else can.
Doing an interview with @tre.radio on Tuesday (01 July) at 4.10 about This Writing Business.
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Doing an interview with @tre.radio on Tuesday (01 July) at 4.10 about This Writing Business.
TODAY is my official publication date. Amazon, via any bookshop and now also available on Kindle. One reader told me last week he found it "exhausting" which I think was a compliment. It's certainly chockful of decades of doing.
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
TODAY is my official publication date. Amazon, via any bookshop and now also available on Kindle. One reader told me last week he found it "exhausting" which I think was a compliment. It's certainly chockful of decades of doing.
Very much enjoyed Rachel Joyce's new novel. She manages to do something quite different each time but always compelling human stories and characters you care about.
June 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Very much enjoyed Rachel Joyce's new novel. She manages to do something quite different each time but always compelling human stories and characters you care about.
Ok. That's last night's review done. Now to the really important business of the day.
June 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Ok. That's last night's review done. Now to the really important business of the day.
Final rehearsal tonight. Went well and great fun except that air con in church hall was so strong our music was blowing about. oh well ...
June 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Final rehearsal tonight. Went well and great fun except that air con in church hall was so strong our music was blowing about. oh well ...
Last week I gave a talk and offered some of my books for sale. One lady who bought The Alzheimer's Diaries has contacted me today to tell me that is "An excellently well written book and very moving." Amazon or order from any bookshop, Folks.
June 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Last week I gave a talk and offered some of my books for sale. One lady who bought The Alzheimer's Diaries has contacted me today to tell me that is "An excellently well written book and very moving." Amazon or order from any bookshop, Folks.