Lost in Words

  An idea crossed my mind. Writers often move through life with a slightly different perspective from everyone else. It is not necessar...

  We live in a world that often treats retirement as the end of productivity. We step away from the world of work, close the door, and are e...

I was reading an article recently about the average life span. It informed me that, on average, we have about 4000 weeks of life . From birt...

Just one of the dumb things that I did at school, when I was a lad. From Son of My Father. I remember the headmaster because of the one tim...

In 2022, I wrote a book called Son of My Father. I remember the moment the title came to me. I was pacing around my home, thinking — search...

When I began writing Son of My Father , I realised how much of my dad’s story I never really knew. So much of who he was existed quietly in ...

An extract from my memoir, Son of My Father.       A very different time. My Brother wrote the service for mam's funeral. He wrote the...

As I have been thinking about changing the cover of my book, I asked ChatGPT to come up with something that was more upbeat and colourful th...

The memories of a sixties’ child. Everyone has a story to tell. Here’s mine in twenty chapter headings. Chapter One — Just a Small Funeral. ...

1) You ate sugar sandwiches, because jam was not available. 2) You had an aunt who would cut your hair. 3) The local library was the interne...

So, yesterday I decided to change the look of the blog layout and theme, and I think it now looks better. It has a cleaner look to it, no ba...

I made another visit to a local charity shop that regularly runs five books for a pound sale.  This is what I bought this time. 1) Pause by...

I came across an article in The Guardian online that posed the question, “why are biographies so popular?”  I could ask, are they?     I ...

From Son of My Father. When a friend turns out to not be a friend at all. I had a friend at school by the name of Colin. Although we were th...

For the next seven days. Son of My Father is available on Amazon for £0.99. (Now expired). It can be found here.  Son of My Father

                                            They think it’s all over…it is now. The famous last words remembered from England's 4-2 vict...

I’m in the back seat of a car parked down the road from a pub. This pub was in the city, but some way from home. It was the pub where, acc...

When I had the idea to write a book, one big question had to be addressed. Would I approach a publisher or an agent to do all the leg work i...

2023 has started with a bang in the world of books.  Spare is a memoir written by the British Royal who chose to step back from his role, P...