(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 'You write very well, you know. You just need to get out of the Middle East. It's doing y...

I suppose there is, one way and another, quite a bit of drinking in my books. Space , my silly first effort at writing, was originally p...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) O’Brien cut in. ‘Tom? Tom? You okay?’ Dunphy’s voice on the radio was tight. ‘We’re coming in....

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 ...

We put away a serious Irish Breakfast Merchant style, then took to the rainy streets to clear our heads having put in a considerable amo...

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

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm co-hosting Dubai Eye Radio's Talking of Books tomorrow and so 10am to 1pm will see me sitting...

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...

Okay, so we've been conspiring merrily with the team at Red Bull and they're coming to play at GeekFest REUNION and bringing hea...

For no particularly good reason, a handful of things you probably didn't know (or even want to know) about Shemlan: A Deadly Tragedy...

Gerrard King's Memento Mori The search for a cover image for Shemlan: A Deadly Tragedy was a long one. It was always going to be ...

The frontispiece of my prized copy of Arabia Felix.  Note TE Lawrence was, at the time he wrote his  foreword for Thomas' book,...

Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy is about a man with terminal cancer whose journey into his past  to find the lost love of his life stirs up a...

When I finished writing Space in 2002 or thereabouts, the idea of writing a synopsis after having dashed down 100,000 words of prose was...

As they climbed up into the hills above Beirut, Hartmoor gazed out of the car window at the buildings around them. No scent of spring fo...

Beirut (Photo credit: Miss Lady Lee ) One of my many odd little habits is having a window on my TweetDeck dedicated to the hashtag #B...

Early on in that most thrilling of Middle Eastern action-packed spy thrillers,  Beirut - An Explosive Thriller , we find that the possib...

"Those looking for nonstop action, political intrigue, smatterings of sex and violence and explosions aplenty need look no further...

He remembered the cold gloom, the sound of dripping water and the looming shapes in the darkness beyond the finger of grey light the ga...