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There is a place near Leicester called Wistow. It’s a bit special and a great place to walk the dog. Park at the church, follow the canal towpath, over the bridge...

Loads of stuff , really. This blog has taken a backseat because of my illness but you might forgive me if I tell you I’m nearly a quarter way through a new...

I had a glorious walk with my family in Bradgate Park on Christmas Eve. I was so happy just to be allowed to see Christmas after my health difficulties of last...

The experience of being struck down by cancer is very interesting. Assuming it doesn’t kill you very quickly (and it does sometimes kill speedily and without...

Some Kind Of Fairy Tale won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in Brighton this week-end. The event was the World Fantasy Convention, attended by...

Someone asked me if I had a Bucket List. I don’t. I’ve said before that if you blow the cobwebs off the Ordinary, the Miraculous appears underneath in...

My last update, “Readers are not strangers” went down well so I’m permanently calling this blog (if that’s what it is) Reader Are Not Strangers. The goodwill...

Good things and bad things often arrive together in life. I think that was what I was trying to say when I wrote “The Tooth Fairy” several years ago. I was recently...

Radio 4 made a documentary radio prog about the England Writers Football Team, for which team I regularly appear in the semblance of a goalkeeper. Yes, at my...

It seems fictional to me to say so, but it is a quarter of a century since I started writing my first published novel Dreamside. I had the seed idea in my head and...

Reviews of Some Kind Of Fairy Tale have been very good – far better than I could have hoped for. Sales too, and of course one would expect to conclude that...

Some Kind Of Fairy Tale is now published in the UK. And on Midsummer’s Day (July 5th under the old pre-Gregorian calendar) I will be calling upon the Good...

That’s a really interesting phenomenon: people who don’t just want to poke their noses into other people’s business (since we all do that) but who then presume...