Updates

Posted on 15 December, 2022

Vote 159 – Bigjoe

Vote 159 – Bigjoe for people’s choice prize at the Rugby Open art exhibition through to February. My son Joe has followed up his and …

Posted on 20 November, 2022

Bonfire night and bonfire of the vanity

In my constant search for more things to be nostalgic about, I wanna take you back to my childhood in a way, to that special …

Posted on 9 November, 2022

Them Roper Girls on Tour

Here we go, here we go, here we go. Just as Europe closes down for the winter and the action moves to the Middle East, …

Posted on 1 October, 2022

AXCO 101 – from Gaborone* to Panama City

Rather than banging on about my fiction, I thought I would post today on another part of my writing life, having just passed a major …

Posted on 6 September, 2022

Go meet your heroes whenever you can, and specially if it’s Roberto Duran.

An honour and privilege to swap books (never dream of trying to swap punches!) with the most humble and greatest of the Four Kings, the …

Posted on 1 August, 2022

BYOB party – anyone coming?

Would anyone be interested in ‘Them Roper Girls’? Would anyone come to the party even if the booze was free, the BYOB meaning Buy Your …

Posted on 17 July, 2022

Publication date 17/7/22 new novel Them Roper Girls

If to publish one novel may be regarded as a misfortune, to publish a second is the triumph of hope over experience. Yet a year …

Posted on 3 July, 2022

New novel out 17/7/22

Here they come … Them Roper Girls. Are they ready for the world? Is the world ready for them? Sign up to this website for …

Posted on 19 June, 2022

When you were sweet sixteen

Lines written for my darling daughter’s sixteenth birthday, verse 52 (yes, really!) no better but the feeling still as true on her wedding day 1/6/22 …