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...

I thought long and hard before posting this, but I think there are some issues around it that really strike to the heart of our region ...

Two of my favourite places come together today as Olives - A Violent Romance (a book set in Jordan) goes on sale in bookshops across L...

Image via Wikipedia I discovered today that Olives - A Violent Romance is now on sale in the UK through The Book Depository . One of th...

The inevitability of it all! A blog of the book, a place for looking at some of the characters, locations and issues contained in that litt...

Image by Ethan.K via Flickr I'm dumbstruck. I don't know whether to do little jigs, run through the streets crying 'Eureka...

Image via Wikipedia The Expat Women's Book Club meets regularly at Paul Café in Jumeirah's Mercato shopping mall and had dec...

Image by jurvetson via Flickr I had an argument with uber-geek Gerald Donovan when I told him I was planning to launch Beirut , my s...

American pianist and composer George Winston's Four Seasons are some of my favourite musical things, perhaps surprising given I...

Image via Wikipedia Group buying site LivingSocial has a great deal on for the next four days in the UAE - A Dhs100 Jashanmal b...

Olives - A Violent Romance has launched and I am glad. It launched, in that any self-published book 'launches', with a talk/read...

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday morning saw me loitering around Mall of the Emirates at the ungodly hour of 8.30am - I had an appoi...

I keep passing milestones I hadn't expected to be milestones. I had barely finished reading my first (and thoughtful, thanks 'B...

Image by epSos.de via Flickr How do you put a price on a book these days? Many authors are selling Kindle books for $0.99, many othe...