It’s that time of year again and I’d like to wish all of my readers a Very Happy Christmas and happiness in the New Year.

Does anyone know what Fadge is? I’ve just looked it up in the dictionary and it says ‘to be in accordant with’. But that’s not what I’m talking about. Fadge is something my mother used to cook for us during the war. It’s common name is – potato cake. It’s a way of using up […]

Below is an extract from my latest book, Unwelcome Stranger, which was quite emotional to write. My hero, Frazer, was walking the beach one night when he found a woman lying close to the incoming tide. At first he thought she was dead, but on closer inspection discovered she was breathing – just about. He […]

Writing obviously takes up a lot of my time – in fact I’d call it my day job. But one of my hobbies is painting.  If I didn’t write I’d probably take it up full time but there are simply not enough hours in the day to do both so I content myself with a […]

I have on my bookshelf a “Midget” English dictionary which was published in 1964 and is still in perfect condition. It has a black leather cover and in gold lettering on the front it says: If your spellings weak, The meaning dim Make no mistake But Look Within Isn’t it a treasure? One of my […]