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My second novel, Gifts of Anger, is officially published today!

I’m teaching a short story workshop for Portsmouth BookFest on 1st March. First-timers and experienced writers alike are welcome. Tickets are only £5.50, available here.

The culmination of five years of the environmental writing project Pens of the Earth, our book, Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is published on 21st October 2024. You can read all about it here.

I now have a newsletter for anyone who wants to keep up to date on my writing. Sign up here!

My debut novel, Mute, is out now.

It’s been far too long since my last update, so I’ve added two new stories: A Sun in the Heart of London and Sonata for Sausage Roll and Exploding Foam.

I’m now involved with an environmental writing project, started by my wife Helen, called Pens of the Earth. Check out our website here.

Another story up on the site – my short monologue ‘Plimsolls‘.

I love a good quote – the pithy, the ponderable, the downright mad. Under the Resources menu I’ve added a page to give a random writing quote.

What happens when you try to write a story using only one vowel? One possible answer is my experimental story ‘Fast Jazz‘, now up on the site.