I should be revising Mystery Manor, book 3 in the Magali Rousseau series. And I am, a little, but since I’m travelling in India, the required concentration is hard to find. There’s too much to…
Many thanks to all who submitted stories to this year’s Book a Break short story competition. The number of submissions is considerably lower than previous years – just 41 this time. Perhaps the theme -…
The Book a Break short story competition is in its third year. From the outset, it was decided to donate the proceeds of the resulting anthology to charity, specifically the Against Malaria Foundation. Writers who…
Last month I did something I should have done 25 years ago: climb the Ste Victoire. To live in Aix and not do that is like living in Athens and never visiting the Acropolis. Never…
‘Green Tights’ was the award-winning story by Sherry Morris in the 2017 Book a Break short story competition. Below is her account of the stay in Provence which she won. It was a wonderful surprise…
Release of Perfume Island: 15th November. Now, to those who’ve been following me for a while, that’s not a big announcement, as I’ve set about 8 different release dates over the past 15 months. Like…
I’ve long harboured a wish to paint. When I visit museums of modern art, I inevitably get a moment – as I suspect many of us do – of thinking, ‘Well, I could do that.’…
Flying back from Mayotte once, I was sitting next to an elderly woman whose daughter and two grandchildren were on the other side of the aisle. We got to talking and I asked her if…
I’ve always been something of a numbers nerd. I was once upbraided at school by Mr. McCartney, the maths teacher, for not doing his polynomial equation. In its place, based on a complex formula of…
At the end of last month, Sherry Morris came to stay with us, together with her partner Phil. I suppose you could say she came to collect her prize as winner of the 2017 Book…