Lost in Words

A few early Spring entries from my 2025 gardening journal, Hands In The Dirt — Notes From a Vegetable Garden. Now available on Amazon. Monda...

  In January of this year, Amazon made an important change to how books could be downloaded from their online platform. It's now possibl...

  Hands In The Dirt — Notes From A Vegetable Garden , publication date, 2026. Gardening and growing food, like writing, is a passion of min...

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...

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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. ...

Just to say right at the start of this Christmas post, the billion reads on Kindle Unlimited does not refer to my book. I wish! No, it refer...

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...