They say that everybody has a book inside them. I agree, but I have probably taken this to an extreme, having written seven books to date. This is the story of how I discovered we can also have a song inside us. When I was a teenager, my music teacher Miss Selsdon found me a ‘challenging’ student. She didn’t…
The inspirations behind Dead Language and Other Stories. Part 1 This 3-part blog is inspired by the talk I gave at the launch party for my new book Dead Language and Other Stories, one stormy night in St Leonards on Sea in November. As the waves crashed onto the shingle only yards from the jazzy venue, I condensed three years’…
What is it about 1940s crime noir that is so irresistible and enduring? My love affair with the genre started in my early teens, watching movies like The Big Sleep, The Blue Dahlia, and The Third Man. I found them compelling; the high stakes, the larger than life characters and murky worlds in black, white and shades of grey. Not…
