Notes and Queries... If you’re an aspiring writer, I’ve recently been introduced to a cracking new website that might be of interest. Letterreview.com was set up by Oliver Adams, a young Sydneysider (is that right? I might have plucked that from nowhere…) who has pulled together a fabulous online resource for anyone with ambitions related to the written word. Be it novel writing, screenwriting, scriptwriting or poetry, you are sure to find something to help and inspire. I highly recommend. There’s also an interview with me (you saw that coming, of course) in which I muse on writing-matters va ..read more

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Incredible Kratu is published in hardback, ebook, and audiobook, on Monday 7th March 2022 What exciting things did you do during the pandemic? Well, Tess Eagle Swan and I mostly did this! Far and away one of the most unique projects I’ve ever worked on (most of it over zoom, and deploying my giant monitor to best effect, so we could myopically pore over every single word), Incredible Kratu is a barn-stormer of a memoir; one I knew I had to get involved with from the minute I met this gentle giant of a dog, and his complex, inimitable, amazing human friend. Honestly could not be prouder of what ..read more

  Yes,last April, after fourteen long years, my Western Mail Weekend Magazine column went on gardening leave, and is unlikely to be returning till the relevant magazine page reaches the top of the queue for a vaccine.(Yes, in a year more RICH IN COLUMN MATERIAL THAT AT ANY TIME IN THE HISTORY OF MY COLUMN, I did not write any columns.)   Instead, I have produced a lot of actual produce.      ..read more

She made a big promise. Did she also make a big mistake? Ten years ago, Grace made her dying sister a promise—that she would look after Hope’s baby son as her own. Now, the man whose son she is raising has turned up on Grace’s operating table, fighting for his life. When an accusation of negligence follows, Grace is forced to confront not just the man who abandoned her sister, but also his mother, Norma—who blames Grace for taking everything she loves. Based on what her sister told her, Grace is sure she did the right thing to keep that promise. But what if Hope didn’t tell her everything? No ..read more

Would you know if someone was watching you? In the dark days since the sudden death of her surgeon husband, Julia’s main worry has always been Tash. Her student daughter was broken—she worshipped her father. But six months on, Julia thinks the light is returning. She is about to find out that she’s wrong. When she saves the life of a boy who’s been hanging around her beach cottage, the questions start. All she has to go on is the butterfly tattoo on his wrist, but who is he? What was he doing there? And why was her late husband’s watch in his bag? Julia wants to believe it’s a casual theft, bu ..read more