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Welcome.

Thanks so much for visiting my website – I’m delighted you’ve found me!

Please feel free to browse the pages to see what I’m up to. At the moment I’m particularly focused on my novels, which are thrillers in the vein of classic writers such as Desmond Bagley (you’ll find plenty more about him on the site). But I’m also an award-winning playwright, poet, short story writer and journalist, as well as dabbling in presenting and performing.

Do let me know what you think and sign up for my author newsletter at the bottom of this page – I’d love to hear from you.

Breaking News.

Off on tour

June 02, 2023


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It's always great to see one of your babies heading out into the world, and this weekend marks the start of a UK and Ireland tour for my new play MacHamLear.

Produced by outdoor theatre specialists Heartbreak Productions, it's an utterly disrespectful mash-up of three of Shakespeare's greatest ...read more

It’s here!

May 11, 2023


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Publication day has arrived! After months of anticipation (by me, at least), my novel Outback is published by HarperCollins.

It's an original sequel to Desmond Bagley's Domino Island, which I worked on in 2019 to bring to publication, and features the same protagonist Bill Kemp – rather delig...read more

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