“Once people come here, they never leave. It is the graveyard of ambition.” When I first came to live in Shropshire, I heard this quite a lot. Now that I’ve …
The Historical Novel Society reviews ‘All the Winding World’
I don’t know if all writers are like me, but when I send a book off for review I immediately assume that the reviewer is going to hate it, even …
A ship leaves port – the launch of ‘All the Winding World’
At the very beginning of writing ‘All the Winding World’, I knew there would be maritime elements in the story. So I popped down to my old University town, Southampton. …
Waiting for ‘All the Winding World’
As I write this, 500 copies of my second novel are in transit, due to arrive at my house on a pallet sometime tomorrow. I think this must feel a …