3 11, 2025

Writing ‘Reptiles’ evoked memories of Bagley Wood

By |November 3rd, 2025|Categories: Biography, Events, History, Kennington, Letters to the press, Lost History, Novels and short stories, Oxford, The Oxford Times|0 Comments

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4430842.run-bagley-wood/?  Reptiles, my latest novel starts with Toad Patrol in Bagley Woods. In this pic, I’m wear my high viz jacket but the month wasn’t appropriate, the amphibians move at the end of February and in March.     This

9 09, 2025

Reptiles- scarily up to the minute!

By |September 9th, 2025|Categories: Kennington, Lost History, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories, Oxford, The Oxford Times|0 Comments

https://madrascourier.com/opinion/the-manospheres-poisonous-influence-how-digital-hate-transforms-young-mens-identities/ As the Madras Courier publishes my feature on the manosphere, copies of my latest book Reptiles arrive! My novel opens with Toad Patrol, an annual  rescue of amphibians  as they cross the Old Abingdon Road. Many from my village

5 09, 2025

Meeting Giorgio!

By |September 5th, 2025|Categories: Art, Biography, Events, History, Novels and short stories, Oxford|0 Comments

Meeting Giorgio! https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/italian-fashion-designer-giorgio-armani-dies-91-2025-09-04/ Today the death was announced of Giorgio Armani. What’s my connection with the fashion designer?  My journey to becoming a novelist began when I took up freelance writing for magazines mostly about art, antiques and books. The

2 09, 2025

The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India – dry sounding but incredible! As others see Us

By |September 2nd, 2025|Categories: History, India, Lost History, Madras Courier, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories, Oxford, Shepherd.com, The Bodleian library|0 Comments

Sculpting the Elephant is part located in Oxford where I live, especially in the former industrial and working class areas of Jericho and St Thomas's but is set when Jericho was gentrifying and the Oxford Rock scene had started to