Writing The Chinese Girl

I’d written and published four Sam Turner novels and although they proved to be adequate vehicles for what I had to say there was still that niggling feeling that I would like to do something different. As a central character Sam Turner was suitably gnarled and worldly wise and a great mouthpiece for that healthy [...]



White Skin Man Reviewed

Maxine’s blog at Petrona has a review of my novel, White Skin Man. Her page is well worth a visit. She also has a link to Amazon where they appear to be giving White Skin Man away. Well, almost.
This is an extract from the novel.
And other reviews of the novel appear on this page.
If you [...]






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