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The Fawlty Towers Spanish Omelette
Seasonal Considerations Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, but having written about love at some length in my last post, I thought about food. Festivals and special days like Valentine’s Day are celebrated the world over by feasts of special dishes, and archaeology suggests that has been a feature human societies for a long time. In

Epiphany
Packing Christmas away Epiphany: time to take the decorations down and go back to work. (Actually, we take ours down before Epiphany these days, as no one visits after New Year’s Day and there is a lot more celebrating in the run up to Christmas than there was in the time of the twelve days’

Merry Christmas
Busy I’m tired. What with the launch of Castle Sefton Press‘ first book – Ghost Train – and preparations for Christmas, I think that’s only natural. And it’s good to be tired from doing productive things. At the last minute too, CSP also had to deal with some new EU legislation, the new General Product

Ghost Train Publication Day: Pitching at the Hole in the Fiction Doughnut
Ghost Train is published. Ghost Train is published today – and will be on its way to those of you who have pre-orders – just fifteen months after I began writing it. I’m excited that it is finally on offer to readers everywhere, because all those who read it as part of the production process

What Will You Carry Through to the New Year?
Christmas is fast approaching. It is once more the time of short, dark days, warm glows and twinkly lights, hearty meals and inward pleasures. Like Clyde in Ghost Train, I have prepared the dark, rich foods of the heart of winter: mincemeat, fruit cake and a round splodge of a Christmas pudding. The first mince

My new book Ghost Train is coming soon.
My new book Ghost Train will be published in paperback and ebook in the next few weeks. Watch out for more news!






