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

Well, our series of four weekly  Emirates Literature Foundation workshops on how to write, edit, find a publisher for or self publish y...

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...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) With the publication of A Decent Bomber came the opportunity to do a quick clean of the Augean stables t...

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...

Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's a bit mad, but I've written another book. I finished it today. It'...

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...

There's a wall in our house slowly being covered with posters. We like neat poster art, and they're from places and artists tha...

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...

(Photo credit: AlphaBetaUnlimited ) I have long been struck by how little people back home knew - or cared - about the situation in t...