

Confessions of a Remote Worker
It’s Monday morning. You’re trapped and rooted to your kitchen chair – the one with that peculiar wobble - a new worry line adorning your...


A Christmas Carousel
“Write a Christmas story? Never! Humbug!” This was the cynical and grumpy voice of my ‘Storyteller of Christmas Past’. And now, a few...


Just another lonely cliff plunge
The BBC recently serialised NW by the very talented Sadie Smith, and I was interested to read that she can’t bear to keep copies of some...


Do authors visit the places they describe?
Yes, my books are always about real places. Whether it’s a building, a mountain, or a city, I have to let the experience and vision of...


Is Twitter like a huge kennel?
Let’s be insensitively honest, Twitter is like a huge kennel on a bleak and isolated Yorkshire moor. Every dog (or user) barks louder and...


The other gender’s most tantalising secret revealed
Sssssh! Only dare to whisper it . . . The other gender’s most tantalising secret revealed. What really happens when a group of men go...















