Sign of the Cross — an article…

April 9, 2013

Here’s an article I wrote for the excellent crime fiction website, Crime Time. Gives a bit of background to ‘Sign of the Cross’ (without any spoilers, I hope). Anyway, it’s nice and short, so that has to be good — http://www.crimetime.co.uk/mag/index.php/showarticle/4669

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Competition: winner revealed…

April 5, 2013

  Well, the deadline has passed, and we have ourselves a winner. As a reminder, the brief was as follows –  ‘In ‘Shadow of the Rock’, Spike Sanguinetti leaves Gibraltar to go to Morocco. In ‘Sign of the Cross’ he goes to Malta. Write up to 100 words on where in the Mediterranean he should go […]

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Competition!

March 28, 2013

  Win a signed and inscribed copy of the new paperback edition of ‘Shadow of the Rock’ — In ‘Shadow of the Rock’, Spike Sanguinetti leaves Gibraltar to go to Morocco. In ‘Sign of the Cross’ he goes to Malta. Write up to 100 words on where in the Mediterranean he should go for a future […]

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Oxford Literary Festival…

March 27, 2013

The Writers’ Round Table event on Saturday turned out to be more of a long, narrow table on a stage in one of  Oxford’s hidden corners — a room off the Bodleian Library where Charles II used to assemble his parliament when it couldn’t meet in London. Having been born in Oxford, grown up outside, and (unimaginatively, perhaps) been […]

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Free short story book…

March 27, 2013

A version of one of the first short stories I ever wrote is featured in a short story collection that is FREE on Kindle. Literally nothing to be lost by downloading; link below — http://www.amazon.co.uk/Short-Sentence-stories-dastardly-ebook/dp/B00BS7PNYM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364411980&sr=1-1  

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Box of Signs…

March 15, 2013

Much excitement today: UPS delivered a box of freshly minted copies of SIGN OF THE CROSS. Undeniable thrill in holding a physical book in your hand. Here is a snap of the box before our toddler son began manically unpacking it…

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Library royalties…

February 28, 2013

Just received £28.14 in library royalties. Time to put down a deposit on that Caribbean villa…

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Contract killer…

February 27, 2013

Red-letter day today as the contracts arrived in the post from Bloomsbury for Spike books 3 and 4. Am currently 20,000 words into Spike 3 –can reveal it is set wholly in Gibraltar, but otherwise… work in progress. Needless to say, I signed on the dotted line with undignified haste and posted the envelope back this afternoon…

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‘No Alibis’ – the reckoning…

February 27, 2013

Reading aloud the words ‘the breasts have been sliced from her body’ then looking out into the audience and seeing your father-in-law raising a sceptical eyebrow… interesting moment. That aside, the ‘No Alibis’ event last Saturday was a joy — for me at least — thanks to the fantastic welcome from the owner of the shop, Dave […]

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Belfast event…

January 16, 2013

Belfast’s — nay, Ireland’s — finest crime bookshop, No Alibis (http://www.noalibis.com/), will be hosting a talk from the author of ‘Shadow of the Rock’ on Sat Feb 23rd at 3pm.  Given that my in-laws are all Northern Irish, there will be no pressure, no, none at all.  Please feel free to drop by if you want to see a […]

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