I don’t like watching myself on TV but it was in a good cause. Dominique Cadiou and I were promoting the launch of The Sobell House Come4 Tea fundraising campaign, It will be launched at The Vaults (Radcliffe Square)
I am over the moon with this mind-blowingly wonderful review of Brushstrokes in Time in the Madras Courier and on their website too. The Madras Courier The free on line quality newspaper is reaching almost half million people mostly Indian
I am very fortunate in the support I am getting. The poet Jenny Lewis posted this wonderful review on facebook. The success of the audio book is down to the passion and enterprise of Catherine O’Brien of Essential Audiobooks and
Theresa May is right in saying Islamist attacks have one thing in common : an evil ideology. Silence as to where that ideology came from is to continue despite the government having the facts at their fingertips. Karren Brady on
Relevant ‘Start the Week’ on BBC Radio4 this morning . In a time of invented facts fiction can tell the truth. I understand completely where Miranda Doyle is coming from ‘fictionalising’ her memoir. I have been on a similar journey.
I have written mini biographies of 120 people for the Castaway Series in Oxfordshire Limited Edition magazine. Those features have been turned into 3 books in support of charities. At the Stratford Literary Festival last year I was asked to
I emailed Andy French about the history of KOA and the question mark over its future. Instead he wrote about me! Oxford Times Article It’s a lovely feature and I'm very appreciative but somewhat embarrassed too. I have never seen
A Turkish agent has taken on Brushstrokes in Time. My novel is dedicated' to anyone anywhere in the world who campaigns for freedom of expression.' With so many journalists writers and teachers under arrest I hope it will be taken
A delightful student has recommended Brushstrokes in Time to her Rector at Yale NUS (Singapore) suggesting I talk to the NUS. (See the extract below) Hasn’t she described the reaction to Brushstrokes in Time well? The sketch was made at
The thought of someone reading my novel over Easter is wonderful enough but her tears are strangely heart- warming. We all need empathy and now more than ever. I'm amazed by the brilliant reviews of Brushstrokes in Time on Amazon