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I’m retreating from the battlefield of social media. It’s almost impossible to get through a day on there without being confronted with unchallenged untruths or gaslighting goons... ‘A Hundred Years to Arras’ was published in 2021 by Unbound. I had begun writing it in 1917, a hundred years after the battle itself. In 2026, the novel is being republished by Wilton Square... Read the rest on Substack. Please read, share and subscribe. It's free!

I’ll be at three events at the Rugby Literary Festival this year… Rugby Literary Festival 2025 Friday 03 October 7:30PM-9:30PM Venue: The Rugby Hotel Storytelling & Performance Word of Mouth A fun evening of spoken word with a mixture of literary and funny writers. Featuring, Zena Barrie, Jo Howard, Dave Williams, Fat Roland, Tom Jenks, Nicole Swengley, Eamon Somers, Jason Cobley, Lulu Allison, Mark Bowsher. Event will have an interval. Books will be available to buy directly from the authors. Age 18+. Book Free Tickets Here Saturday 04 October 11:30AM – 12:30PM Venue: The Rugby Hotel Author Talks Fact, Fiction, Faction? You have probably seen the disclaimer at the start of a film or TV series:  Based on a true story. Some characters and events have been created for dramatic purposes.  Have you ever wondered how writers of historical novels go about creating the past? How much research they need to do? How they balance competing viewpoints? Perhaps they offer a completely ...

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Bargain! My publisher have loads of ebooks on special offer at £1.99! That's less than a cup of coffee! This includes my WW1 novel based on my relative Robert Gooding Henson of the Somerset Light Infantry. If you've not taken the plunge before and you've got an e-reader, please take a look! Thank you! https://unbound.com/products/a-hundred-years-to-arras?_pos=1&_psq=a+hundred-&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Saturday was an interesting day. I’d decided at the last moment to book a table at the Coventry Book Extravaganza at the Belgrade Theatre. There’s a few of these throughout the year in different towns and cities. I’m already booked into the Lichfield one later in the year, but decided to do this one as well to clear some shelf space of my books. I went along with a good spread. Once again, ‘A Hundred Years to Arras’ and ‘Calendar of Ghosts’ did well. Also, one chap bought a clean sweep of my ‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’ graphic novels, as well as ‘The Signal-Man’ and ‘Amnesia Agents’. Result! It was great to meet the fella who had delivered to Dave Hitchcock his first graphic novel ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’, so made a bee-line for one of my few remaining copies of mine and David’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signal-Man’. There’s also always somebody who has their own family story about The Great War, which is wonderful to hear as an author; great to know that m...