Double act

I call him the Other Nicholas Royle. He probably calls me the same. For a long time he wrote non-fiction and I wrote fiction, so it was relatively easy to distinguish between us, although I did encourage him to cross over by commissioning him to write a couple of short stories. Anyway, Nicholas Royle is publishing his second novel, An English Guide to Birdwatching (Myriad Editions), and I am bringing out my second collection of short stories, Ornithology (Confingo Publishing) at the same tim...