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I've been writing for nearly forty years. Good gracious, that long? I realized my unhip credentials were mounting so decided to write about it. Little Guide to Unhip was first published in 2010 and is now updated and republished.

However I'm not totally unhip. My punk novel, Fall Of The Flamingo Circus was published by Allison & Busby (1990) and by Villard (American hardback 1990). It's now been re-kindled.

I received a Southern Arts bursary for my novel Where A Shadow Played (now Did You Whisper Back?)

Skrev Press published my novels Seaview Terrace (2003) Sucka! (2004) and Break Point (2006) and other shorter work has appeared in Skrev’s avant garde magazine Texts’ Bones including a version of my satirical novella Lost The Plot.

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2020 Goals

Happy New Year to you all! 2020 certainly has a ring about it, if for no other reason than its description of normal vision! For the last few years I have made myself some goals for the new year. Keeping on the vision theme, I suppose you could describe them as vision for the year ahead. I've found it's helpful to do that and to see how many I've achieved at the year's end. So here we go for... Read more of this blog post »

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A Song For Bill Robinson: Book One in the Holds End Series

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Kate made a comment on her review of The Little Red Chairs " Natalie wrote: "Definitely not just you! Thank you for commenting on my review " You're welcome, Natalie. Yes it was reassuring to find it wasn't just ...more "
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Kate made a comment on Lisa’s review of The Little Red Chairs " Lisa wrote: "Yes, it was disappointing..." It wouldn't put me off another of her novels, Lisa, but to be honest I've such a backlog of things to read ...more "
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I really struggled with this book. It was lent to me by a friend and I put it aside for ages. I thought it would be about something completely different, so came to it with other expectations. Once I read the introductory section relating to the ...more
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Kate and 16 other people liked Jenny (Reading Envy)'s review of The Little Red Chairs: "Well, this book was disappointing. I have read several books set in the former Yugoslavia, all better than this book. (The Cellist of Sarajevo, The Tiger's Wife, People of the Book, etc.) It was like the author couldn't decide what kind of book to..." Read more of this review »
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