As well as full-length novels and non-fiction publications, I also write short stories. and various types of non-fiction articles. Please feel free to download the stories/articles below for free. Then come back to this page for further writings as they appear from time to time.
When I first became an author I must have had only the vaguest idea of what the publishing world really looked like, the scale of the business globally and the amazing constellation of specialists that make up the industry. I didn't think much about it, it seemed to me you thought of a story, typed it up, sent it to a publisher, they sent you a cheque, and the book appears on bookshop shelves. Just like that, as someone once said. Of course we all know it’s rarely like that – even f…
When Mr Churchill’s call for all and any boats available to go over to Dunkirk, Dad didn't
even ask Mum if she minded, he jumped on his bike and rode the two miles from
Thorrington down to the harbour at Brightlingsea and made ready the Red Rose, his
little fishing boat . . .
It was my twelfth birthday when my Aunt Elizabeth gave me my first camera. It was a beautiful Brownie Flash Six-20,
and she even included two rolls of colour film, yes colour, that would enable me to get the best butterfly pictures. A
brilliant camera with it’s own flashgun attachment. It was June 1942 . . .