Look, first things first. I've always loved the original cover of my first serious novel, Olives - A Violent Romance , which publish...

My books are now ALL on sale at WH Smith branches across the UAE in paperback. As of now, they're all in stock. I'm reliably inf...

Birdkill launches on the 1st March - I may have forgotten to mention that? If I did, sorry. This coincides with the first day of the E...

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This is the new cover for Olives - A Violent Romance . You can go here to buy it, as well as my other books . No, no need to thank me. I...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's not my fault I've ended up with two books. The Irish Farmer took a year to write, the newnew ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) This is all totally irrelevant to anyone, anywhere, ever, but I thought I'd take the chance to d...

BOOKS? FREE ? YES! FREE BOOKS! WHERE? RIGHT HERE! ISN'T IT AMAZING ? WOW !   WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO? The Dubai Radio ad scri...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) When I started work on Beirut - An Explosive Thriller way back in November 2009, I posted this here lump ...

Olives - A Violent Romance and Beirut - An Explosive Thriller have sold out of their print editions. I'm still not sure how to r...

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Dramatic Gerbil (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I was once chatting to an American gentleman who insisted he was going to Gerbil Arlee. It t...

I might have forgotten to mention this (I didn't? Oh, goodie !), but kids' author Rachel Hamilton and I will be on the Terrace a...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Back in the days when men were men, women were interested and dinosaurs roamed the earth, the Dubai Worl...

The Brand Spanking New Bookshop at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) STOP PRESS Last session tonight - 28th October - at ...

I've stalled on the new book. I've written not one word since before the Summer hols. I made some notes and stuff in Belfast and ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There comes a time when some form of reality has to intrude into writing novels, usually when you feel s...

When Olives - A Violent Romance first started to infest bookshelves around the UAE, the sales team at distributor Jashanmal making thei...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I first met Jordanian blogger, trouble maker and Converse-loving spectacle rack Roba Al-Assi at the inaugura...

Would I like to write a 1,000 word short story for Time Out Dubai as part of their Emirates Airline Festival of Literature coverage? Su...