The Inspiration to become an author How it all began. I was inspired by my English teacher Mr Hinchliffe to enjoy literature and to understand books fully. Even though we were only eight, he introduced the class to The Hobbit and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as class…

2029 The book that predicted the pandemic and recession. My wife and I, Alexander and Barnaby, used to go to Cornwall every summer for a week with my in-laws, staying in the charmingly named Portwrinkle, in the forgotten corner of Cornwall that most people whizzed past on their way to…

Are you a writer, too? When did you first start to write? Can you remember what you wrote about? I remember being rewarded for my creative writing by being in the termly school magazine at Moor Park, the school featured in ‘Harry’ and those were generally recounts or poems. My…

A rip roaring sailing adventure. Two teenage brothers take on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and the Spanish authorities who have sided with the Argentinians in the Falklands War. Comedy and tragedy, played out on two of the seven seas. A study of human frailty and the triumph of hope…

2029 First, let me declare a minor conflict of interest: The author and I were at school together. We were not especially close, were in different houses and it was forty years ago , so I am pretty certain that I can be reasonably objective here.