My blogs

  • On BBC Radio 4 Front Row with Kirsty Lang

      At 6’3″ and 16 stone, I was always going to be a forward. I’m talking rugby football here, of course. But appearing in the front row was always for shorter, stockier lads. I was always second row, sometimes at No.8. So, when a call came through about appearing on Front Row, I was a Read more

  • My first ‘Crimefest’

    With 2017 Bristol Crimefest around the corner, I’ve been reflecting on my first attendance at this amazing event. As 2016 dawned, I had never heard of Crimefest so when Orenda Books publisher, Karen Sullivan asked me to attend and take part in a couple of interview panels, I really had no idea what I was signing Read more

  • Sunday Times feature.

    Not a long past, but an event like this is something I just had to share. Yesterday, for the first time, I was featured in the Sunday Times. A very nice journalist called Leaf Arbuthnot came all the way from London to interview me here in Wales. We talked about the process by which I Read more

  • The old man’s humour

    Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again asking why I didn’t do something useful with my time. Like sitting at home writing books is not a good thing. Talking about me “doing something useful” seems to be one of her favourite topic of conversation. She was “only thinking of me” and even suggested I go down Read more

  • Publication day #DeadlyGame

    20th February 2017. Today sees the publication by Orenda Books of the sequel to Wicked Game. Deadly Game I won’t spoil the surprise – watch the trailer here Read more

  • Saving a bee colony

    There’s a knock on the door. Something of a nightmare to a writer. You are mid chapter, mid sentence even, and the words are flowing. All stop. I know some who ignore callers, phone calls and all other means of communication when they are ‘in the groove’. I try. But a knock at the door Read more