December 11, 2020
Over the last few months I have been privileged to work with the massively talented, million-selling author, Mark Dawson on a project to create a brand new children’s series. With our shared love of the classic Enid Blyton stories of […]
November 29, 2020
Lockdown has been a busy period for me as I have been hugely privileged to be working with million-selling thriller writer, Mark Dawson to co-author two new children’s stories. The result is the first in a brand-new series, ‘The After-School Detective […]
April 30, 2020
The essence of packing for the jungle is to travel light. That is my theory and it seems a sound one. Packing has been planned, re-planned and honed down to the bare essentials and includes no more than three dry […]
March 5, 2020
I am hugely excited to announce that my next book, the first in a brand new sci-fi adventure series will be published by Faster-Than-Light Press on 1st June 2020 and will be entitled STARLESS & BLACK…and the case of the […]
January 30, 2020
Anyone who loves sci-fi (that’s everyone, right?) is looking for a glimpse of the future. And all sci-Fi writers like to paint big, bold visions of the future that we find exciting, amusing or just plain scary. So, who has […]
June 9, 2019
On July 20th1969, three days before my ninth birthday, I crouched in front of our TV set, mesmerised by the grainy, black and white images of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon. I watched the footage over […]
April 25, 2019
A top five list of aliens? Out of the wealth of alien-ness available in the field of science fiction how could I possibly settle on only five? Well, I don’t claim this is a list everyone will agree with but […]
April 5, 2019
Science Fiction was practically my entire life when I was a kid and it’s still one of the most imaginative and exciting genres available to young readers. Whether you come for the science or for the fiction, sci-fi has something […]
March 24, 2019
Pt1: “Lashings of ginger beer” A writer’s inner sanctum is surely the holiest of holys. The place where creative juices flow and much-loved characters are born, live and die. It is a place where empires rise and fall and magical folk […]
July 30, 2017
Our porters on the journey are all from the local tribe of Pemon Indians.
November 12, 2016
The real adventure begins when our gear is loaded into 4X4s for the 20km journey to the start of the trek.