Retreat cancelled

Added on 29 March 2016

Unfortunately the writing retreat week on Tanera Mor in the Summer Isles in early May has had to be cancelled. Hopefully we'll get another chance next year.

The Stone Stories

Added on 27 March 2016

For the past four years I've been writing a historical novel set in the Iron Age. It is inspired by the amazing journey of Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek who was the first Mediterranean (as far as we know) to circumnavigate Britain. He wrote a book called On the Ocean, which is lost, but...

A chance to write for radio

Added on 08 February 2016

My current writing project (the vast historical novel, or is it a trilogy?) is nearing completion and I have vowed that next I will write work that is small, compact and preferably oral. I have lots of ideas for radio pieces, and it's a medium I'd love to explore, but I'm an inexperience...