Category Archives: My fiction

Progress on writing “the BREXIT thriller”…

I really must find a title for my current project, a post-BREXIT espionage Thriller! That’s my goal this weekend… if I achieve nothing else, and I might not in the current UK heatwave, it would be great to get a title together for this story. Progress has been intermittent on this book. By Christmas IContinue reading “Progress on writing “the BREXIT thriller”…”

Thrillers, Espionage and Nietzsche…

I was describing the progress on my latest work-in-progress (the post-Brexit espionage thriller, still untitled) to a colleague last week and stunned myself into silence when I made a connection that I hadn’t seen before… A few years back I read my way through some of the popular works of the most famous philosophers andContinue reading “Thrillers, Espionage and Nietzsche…”

Thanks to everyone who downloaded a free copy of ‘An End of Beginnings’ during my recent promotion on KDP…

I’ve just enjoyed running a 5-day free promotion for ‘An End of Beginnings’ on Amazon Kindle. It is always fun using Facebook groups to engage with readers and I’d like to thank the 51 people who downloaded a copy, I hope you enjoy it 🙂  – it would be nice to get some honest reviewsContinue reading “Thanks to everyone who downloaded a free copy of ‘An End of Beginnings’ during my recent promotion on KDP…”

“Smoke Above the Village”

I don’t often write poetry but a theme about chav violence wouldn’t leave me alone and eventually this is what emerged: OneGratia gratum faciens…Thomas’ words echo around Æthelberht’s seat,lost exhortations to the ebb and flow on thecobbled bridge where frightened witches once wept.Hollow bodies gabble past the old wet stool,selfish, replete with base desires, fullContinue reading ““Smoke Above the Village””

Awestruck by the drive & dedication shown by the climbers in the film “Meru”…

I’ve just finished watching the film “Meru” on Netflix and I was left completely in awe of the drive and dedication of the climbers to reach the peak of Mount Meru, a nearly 22,000-foot tall Himalayan mountain. In 2011, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk were the first people to reach its summit viaContinue reading “Awestruck by the drive & dedication shown by the climbers in the film “Meru”…”