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...

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

Writing a book is just the start of the journey to publication, whether you’re self published or taken on by a publisher. More and more...

Isn't this all exciting? So the final edit of Beirut - An Explosive Thriller is back from proofreading and ready to be formatted fo...

Taking place at the Al Maraya Arts Centre at the delightful Al Qasba arts and recreation area in Sharjah, Twinge Sharjah is going to...

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...

It's an odd feeling, there's a strange finality sending my novel Olives to the printers. I've sent dozens of magazines, year...

Image via Wikipedia The very nice piece about me in The National last Sunday did  contain one or two teensy-weensy mistakettes, one ...

Image via Wikipedia The first question anyone asks you when they find out you've written a book is 'What's it about?'...

Image via Wikipedia Of the many strange pathways that this writing thing has opened up, perhaps the strangest is that I am to become ...

Cover via Amazon When I first started out on this whole book writing thing, to my ever-lasting regret, I kept very quiet indeed about w...

Image by vial3tt3r via Flickr Actually writing a book is easy as pie. You just take 75-100,000 words or so and put them down on paper. The...

Image via Wikipedia Daoud stood. ‘Have you ever seen an olive tree, Paul? Come with me, I’ll show you our little grove of olives we keep her...

Image by APAAME via Flickr Aisha took us downhill into a leafy avenue of fine old houses before she gestured, her wooden bangles clacking. ...