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Eightieth anniversary of the Monte Cassino bombings
Next week marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Monte Cassino – one of the most vivid and debated incidents of the Second World War and a key moment in my forthcoming novel Prayer in Time of War, which is published on February 23rd. With its heavily fortified mountain defences, difficult river crossings, and…
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Paying homage to the so-called ‘D-Day Dodgers’
Later this month I will release my debut novel – inspired by the wartime recollections of my grandfather, who fought in Italy during the Second World War. Prayer in Time of War, which is released on February 23, 2024, tells the story of elderly war veteran Ernie as he returns to an Italy transformed from…
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Radio interview
It was good to meet up with BBC Radio Wiltshire reporter Steve Clements at a very windswept Alton Barnes between Christmas and New Year. The interview he recorded with Charlie and I about Walking the White Horses was broadcast on January 2, and can be heard at 1 hour 29 mins into the programme: BBC…
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‘Riding high’ in R&A Mag
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/
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Writing the Wiltshire Landscape
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.…
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Promoting Walking the White Horses
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…
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Video: On walking in nature
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.
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Walking the White Horses Book Talk
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…
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Walking the White Horses launch week video
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…
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Walking the White Horses – in bookshops
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…
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