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Dec 17, 2024
The Year in review
How can we be almost at the end of 2024 already? The months have flown by. Life is still busy but those of you who write to me telling me...
Oct 14, 2024
Saturday Signings at The East Grinstead Bookshop
​We run a programme of Saturday signings with well-known and breaking authors *. Come along, meet the author, find out what inspires them...
Sep 22, 2024
SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH SCOTT BEE
It’s a Saturday afternoon in late May. Scott Bee is in his kitchen installing a new under cabinet lighting system. It’s not going well....
Sep 16, 2024
Phil Hall podcast interview with The Planet Reigate Podcast
The interview sits in episode 53 and starts at the 23 minute mark.  You can listen to the show ‘via your favourite podcast app’; ask...
Jun 23, 2022
Serving an ace?
Most historians believe that tennis originated in the monastic cloisters of northern-France in the 12th century, but the ball was struck...
Oct 18, 2021
Ideas Above My Station
I don’t suppose The Times will ever invite me to share my cultural fix on the pages of their Saturday edition; in fact, I don’t suppose...
Sep 11, 2021
Is it me?
I feel that this is a question that every fiction author gets asked; is the story autobiographical? So, let’s tackle it now. The short...
Jul 31, 2021
Meet the author, buy me a drink!
Hot on the heels of my first book signing day, here comes another. I know, just like the proverbial London bus. This one takes place in...
Jul 27, 2021
The Big Day
The Book Launch Happens Today Today’s the day. The day I never dared dream would happen. I’m writing this a few days before the 31st and...
Jul 25, 2021
Why Write?
E very time I read about the history of another writer it seems that destiny drew them to a waiting page and placed a pencil in their...
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