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...

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...

It's become sort of traditional to live blog the ExpatWoman Festive Family Fair, which I usually share with madcap children's au...

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...

 (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 realised things were getting pretty desperate when I started growing a ginger beer plant. I used to have...

(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...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm doing a third panel at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature , "Future Shock: Writin...

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

Birdkill written, I needed a cover image for the book. The title was simple enough, the original short story was called 'Martin...