Out-takes V

‘It’s not working,’ Geordie said. ‘You were right, what you said about Janet and Ralph and me and Echo all living in the same house. It doesn’t work.’
Sam sighed. ‘What’re you doing about it?’
‘Dunno. I just know it’s not working. That’s the stage I’ve come to. The first stage. Now I know that, I’ll go [...]



Writing Shooting in the Dark

During my talk in Lincoln last night I read an extract from one of the novels in the Sam Turner series.
I published Shooting in the Dark some years ago. It is a novel centred around a death-threat to a blind woman and her sister. It is about sight and seeing and how easy it is [...]






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