One Year Later – Book Club Questions Is anyone in a Book Club? I must admit, I don't really have... Read More
One Year Later – Nick Flowers Here's an extract from One Year Later, told from Nick Flowers' perspective, the day his... Read More
One Year Later – The Prologue Here's the prologue to One Year Later. Let me know what you think! If... Read More
One Year Later – Behind the Scenes The inspiration behind One Year Later... https://youtu.be/hIazMxexyM8 Read More
One Year Later – Behind the scenes: The Cottage When we bought a large plot of land and a house that we were planning... Read More
One Year Later – Behind the Scenes: Somerset I wrote my psychological thriller, One Year Later, in Bristol, but at the time we... Read More
One Year Later – Behind the scenes: The Pond In the garden of the house in Somerset that we’ve been renovating is a small... Read More
Blueprint for a house…and a story In May 2017 we bought a house in Somerset. It was originally built in the... Read More
Letter to my younger self What would you tell yourself if you could? The Royal Literary Fund recently gave me... Read More
My writing talisman My writing talisman is a beautiful painting by artist, Elaine Jones. It's of Cornwall -... Read More
How to write a thriller In a few days time I’m heading to Ted Hughes’ old house, Lumb Bank, in... Read More
Becoming a coach I’ve just returned to working for charity, First Story, this month. First Story’s aim... Read More
Diversity in Fiction I’ve written as a Jesuit priest in Outer Mongolia, a nine-year-old in inner city Bristol,... Read More
My Mother’s Secret: Stories within the Book I'm delighted to welcome Tasha Locke to my blog this week. Tasha graduated from Bristol... Read More
One Year Later As My Mother's Secret has been wending its way into the world, I've been working... Read More
My Mother’s Secret – Launch party! It's hard to believe, for me at least, but after doing little else but think... Read More
My Writing Toolkit Book blogger and health journalist, Victoria Goldman, asked me to tell her what my essential writing... Read More
In a thriller, nowhere is safe… This is a blog post I wrote on the importance of setting for The Asian... Read More
How to tell a good plot My seven-year-old daughter is teaching me how to plot. She’s drawn a story mountain for... Read More
The octopus and the pirates I'm giving a talk on plot at Novel Nights on Wednesday 23 Many. This is... Read More
My Mother’s Secret & Cake! There are 25 different kinds of cake name-checked in My Mother’s Secret, from Daim cake... Read More
My Mother’s Secret – Book Club Questions I love reading and writing - obviously! And I then love meeting up with... Read More
My Mother’s Secret is out now! My Mother's Secret is out now! It's available to buy in bookshops or from Amazon.... Read More
Hiking for writing II Happy Earth Day! Today, we’re celebrating our extraordinary planet, and trying to end plastic pollution.... Read More
In praise of the National Trust It’s perhaps no surprise that two of the settings in my third thriller, My Mother’s... Read More
