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Exciting news… In a couple of weeks, I will be releasing a new book, Walking the White Horses: Wiltshire’s White Horse Trail on Foot.   Earlier this year, I set off on a long walk – seeking to tackle the 90+ miles of Wiltshire’s White Horse Trail, joined in the adventure by my wide-eyed 10-year-old son, Charlie.  Walking…

Seventeen years after first publishing Island Life: A History of Looe Island, it’s great to see the new edition out and for the first time available on Kindle. It’s just £1.99 on Kindle or free to view if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited: https://amzn.eu/d/cUoIwET

I was thrilled to win the Local Prize at the Frome Festival Short Story Competition 2023, for my story They’re Getting Help.   The Sunday afternoon event, held at the Merlin Theatre in the Somerset town, brought together the local writing community – from teenagers to retirees – for a really inspiring celebration of the…

Writer, broadcaster and Anglican priest, the Rev. Richard Coles has certainly had a varied career – stretching back to his synth pop days alongside Jimmy Somerville in The Communards. But after penning an acclaimed series of non-fiction books and memoirs, he turned his attention fiction – releasing his debut mystery novel in 2022. Speaking at…

John Banville, who won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea, confirmed he has written his last literary fiction, speaking in Bath this week. As he promoted his new book The Lock Up, he indicated that he would now be concentrating purely on his Strafford & Quirke mystery series. His new work is the…

Sebastian Barry spoke captivatingly in Bath, during his visit to promote his new novel Old God’s Time. The book deals movingly with the issues around historic child sex abuse in the Catholic church in Ireland, which Barry described as “not like a couple of rotten apples”, adding “it was more like a barrel of fermented…

From a balcony perch at Christ Church in Bath on Monday evening, I listened intently to former children’s laureate Michael Rosen as he spoke of his approach to “getting better” – not just recovering from his critical bout of Covid, which saw him in an induced coma for 40 days; but also working through the…

Love him or loathe him, the one thing you can’t do with Jeffrey Archer is ignore him. Bristolians certainly won’t miss him on Saturday, when the original Weston peer launches his new novel in a blaze of nostalgia, with a 1920s-style tea party at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel. There is a good reason for…

People always say it’s a bad idea – meeting your heroes. They’re likely to disappoint; shattering the idolised image you have built up of them over the years. So I was a bit nervous about meeting Roger McGough CBE in the flesh. It’s not like shaking his hand at a book signing or a literature…

In a rare interview, John Cleese tells David Clensy about his plans to return to Clifton College; reveals he’s writing a new comedy reminiscent of Fawlty Towers; and predicts that ‘Barack Obama will transform the world’ When you’re due to interview John Cleese over the telephone, it’s difficult not to imagine him on the other…