“Segovia, I thought he was dead?” That is my reaction as my wife points to an advertisement in our local Edinburgh newspaper for a...

Koalas, trains and the strangeness of strangers. I’m on the little train that trundles and shakes its way down from Adelaide Hills to the...

This is intended to be the first in an occasional series on writers I admire. I’m going to start with possibly my favourite novelist,...

I’m often asked how I write ‘funny’. Occasionally this is a comment on my handwriting but usually it concerns writing humour. My normal...

A few of my own thoughts on getting the opening of your novel right. The first line. It’s the beginning for the reader isn’t it? Well,...

A Clear Solution was born may years ago when I and my colleagues in the pharmaceutical company I worked in were given notice of...