A Little Post-Lockdown Update
Lockdown was never going to be any travel writer’s finest hour. Writing about travelling… within five miles of your front […]
Journeys – Talk at the Professional Women’s Business Association, Cardiff, February 28
A rearrangement! I was due to give this talk in January 2018 but for a couple of reasons it has […]
On Brutality and Bardism – Talk at the PENfro Book Festival, Rhosygilwen, Pembrokeshire
PENfro has been one of those literary festivals I’ve idolised for a while: what after all could constitute a more […]
South America: Interlude
I don’t expect anyone who drops in occasionally to this site to make sense of the daily plans and monthly […]
Eisteddfod!!
The premier event in the Welsh cultural calendar starts today, and I have a fair few reasons for being excited […]
Song Castle Launched at Octavo’s in Cardiff
Song Castle was officially launched to the Welsh literary world on Thursday, April 12th at the bookshop/cafe-bar Octavo’s in Cardiff […]
On the Role of St Davids and Western Wales in Medieval Culture – Talk at the Oriel Y Parc Visitor Centre in St Davids, July 4th
For those of you who have never heard of or paid a visit to St Davids, sequestered way out on […]
On the Cultural Clout of Ceredigion and Wales in the 12th Century – Talk at Cardigan Castle, April 26th
I am delighted to announce that the first post-launch talk that I will be doing on my new novel Song […]
Song Castle – Book Launch at Octavo’s in Cardiff Bay, April 12th
As any writer knows, a book you have spent months in the writing of deserves a little bit of fanfare […]
Reading at Llandeilo Lit Fest This April!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be talking all things medieval and Welsh with fellow writer Jean Gill at this […]
Song Castle: It’s Official – My Latest Novel is Out in April
It has been four months in the research, almost one year and 125,000 words in the writing, but I am […]
The Amazandes: Making In-Roads Into Peru’s Wildernesses
There are a fair few nations that lend themselves to being termed ‘World’s Most Addictive Wilderness”. I have not (yet) […]
Quiet Start to 2017? Well…
Behind the moody, storm-tossed January skies, all has seemed quiet in my Welsh abode. But a lot of stuff has […]
Song Castle: My New Novel to be Published in Spring 2018
If someone had asked me a few years back if I would be alternating my writing focus between Puerto Rico […]
The New Novel!
I am delighted to announce today that the publishers of Roebuck, Urbane Publications, will be publishing my second novel in […]
When the Well Runs Dry… One Solution to Writer’s Block
This post is intentionally left, by the way, with the title surrounded by blackness. Following up writing one’s first novel […]
Luke and his Words... 