Well, this is a first. It's only been eighteen years since I first sent a book to a literary agent (almost to the day, funnily enou...

I've gone and done the book thing again. I finished my fifth serious novel, Birdkill , in February 2016 and that was lovely. I mes...

I can justify that headline. A man called Books reserves his, Books', books of books. There. Meanwhile, adding to yesterdays frankly ...

Of all the reviews on Amazon for my books, my favourite of the lot is for Birdkill:  "This is a cynical negative, depressing bo...

Arabian Red Fox picture taken in Al Sukhnah, Jordan (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I wrote this simply ages ago for Jordanian website/wri...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm going to be back on the radio on Saturday, from about 10.30am Dubai time on the revamped Talking Of ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) About 16 years ago, prescient me sat down to write a book to take my mind off my recently ceased 60 a day ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Oh golly, oh gosh! I nearly missed it. Happy Birthday, Fake Plastic Souks! Ten years ago this month, I was ...

English: Erik Pevernagie, painting. Representing the opposition with lightness of being (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm not writin...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've written a children's book. I could tell you that it was because we were riffing around...

Next Saturday, the 12th November, is the ExpatWoman Festive Family Fair. This hotly anticipated annual occasion takes place at Dubai Po...

Every Saturday, the Emirates Airline LitFest crew take over the Dubai Eye Radio studio for three hours. They do unthinkable things behind...

Sharjah-stamp1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's been a while, I know. Holidays, work, more holidays. Stuff. Life's been busy. ...

I've done a number of workshops over the past few years which set out to help accelerate people's booky journeys by sharing wi...

So my newest novel is free on Amazon in all flavours for the next 48 hours or so. Enough time to nip off over there and download it: eno...

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...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There have been a number of recent reports celebrating the ‘undeath’ of print, with a reported decline in t...

" A Decent Bomber was an excellent story." "I read and reviewed prior novels by Alexander McNabb ( Shemlan, Olives, an...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've slipped into the warm waters of a happy limbo since the LitFest. I've had little enough to sa...

I'm feeling slightly shell-shocked this morning. The weekend's whirl is over and I realised, probably massively belatedly but th...