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Thanks to Round and About Magazine for the wonderful coverage of Walking the White Horses in January’s R&A Magazine! You can read the full article here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/cibyw/aqmz/

I’m looking forward to taking part in this event at Trowbridge Museum in January, alongside Glyn Coy, photographer and author of Hidden Wiltshire. We’ll be discussing how our books came about, our shared interest in Wiltshire’s hidden history and the challenges and pleasures of capturing the Wiltshire landscape in words and photographs. Tickets are free.…

There was a peculiar sense of unreality as I found myself standing at a lectern earlier this week talking to an audience about Walking the White Horses. After many years of attending other writers’ book talks, to suddenly be the person at the front doing the speaking gave the whole evening a dreamlike quality. But…

In 2020, I started regularly walking in Green Lane Woods – a Wiltshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve close to my home. In this video, I talk a little about why my daily interaction with the natural world became increasingly important and helped to inspire my writing.

I am delighted (and perhaps just a little terrified) to have been invited to speak at Wiltshire Museum in Devizes on Tuesday December 5 following the publication of Walking the White Horses: Wiltshire’s White Horse Trail on Foot. The talk will take place in the Museum’s lecture theatre and will be followed by a book…

It’s been amazing to launch Walking the White Horses this week. Here’s a little video of me explaining what I’ve been up to. Anyone who has already read the book will know that for Charlie, my 10-year-old son who joined me on the 93-mile walk, creating a YouTube video about the adventure was one of…

It’s been exciting this week to launch Walking the White Horses after months of walking and writing. Amazon and Kindle offer such a wonderful route to market for self-published writers these days. But I wanted to take a moment to thank the lovely bricks-and-mortar retailers who have agreed to stock the book. If you live…

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