Valentia, looking towards Reynard Point In one week's time we leave for Ireland, knowing how lucky I am to be able to slip from one country to another. My father was born in Belfast. I have an Irish passport. Jane is London Irish, her parents from Kerry and Sligo so it's a pretty easy move [...]
In a recent newsletter I asked people to enter a giveway for one of Dungeness artist Paddy Hamilton's Dungeness Font t-shirts. To enter, all they had to do was answer this question. What is your favourite t-shirt? I was totally unprepared for how may people would answer. I’ve had about fifty stories in the first [...]
It was great to get back to this brilliant little community bookshop for the launch event for Dead Rich. Little it may be, but it's a shop with big ideas. Next year will be the bookshop's tenth anniversary. The community interest company was launched when the small town's bookshop announced it was closing. Since then [...]
My second G. W. Shaw book The Conspirators is out on July 20th 2023. It's been a long journey for this book. I had the original idea for it under lockdown, reading my friend Marek's book Four Words For Friend. Marek has Polish heritage and became fascinated with how bilingualism affects our neurology and the way [...]
I did a panel at Capital Crime a couple of weeks ago, and the topic was crime writers from Brighton. It really is a pretty extraordinary list, and I'm sure I'm missing a few. I have a brain like a sieve. Off the top of my head: Graham Bartlett Julia Crouch David Fennell Elly Griffiths [...]
