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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...
Dec 17, 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...
Oct 14, 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 23, 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...
Sep 16, 2024


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...
Jun 24, 2022


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...
Oct 19, 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...
Sep 12, 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...
Aug 1, 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 28, 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...
Jul 26, 2021
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