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...

(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 ...

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

I just thought this was more fun than the EAFOL logo, to be honest... The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is once again upon ...

 (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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Pristine Private School is one of a number of schools clustered in the middle of tower blocks and residential buildings in Dubai's n...

 (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'...