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MIXED MESSAGES

Here’s a short story I wrote a few years ago, and did nothing with, perhaps for good reasons! It does read a bit like a reprise of Gregory’’s Girl. But waste not, want not isn’t a bad motto for life, so here goes. My phone gave out a ring. That was...

I’ve been watching them 70 years

By the time you reach my age, there are so many anniversaries to honour, some happy, some sad. Sometimes you miss one. On the third of January, it was seventy years since I first watched Bolton Wanderers. My Dad decided that at seven I was old enough. We were playing...

christ knows what

I listened a couple of days ago to two excellent podcasts by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook about the life of Christ, part of their The Rest is History series. They were well done, if telling me what I already knew or have thought. I agree with them that the census...

Elation from a Great Review

There’s nothing better than reading a review from someone who’s really got what you’re on about. The latest from Donovan’s Bookshelf in the Reviews section has done just that. I’ve not written a bestseller, and the books aren’t going to be the next Netflix series, but...

The Dove is Published

Publication Date is this week for The Dove Is Dead, the last bird in the Unholy Trinity. The idea of having the covers to my novels forming a mini-aviary only came to me with the publication of the second book, No Precedent, the themes of which both included and...