Understanding India

With 2 days to go until my first live and in person festival appearance, the books of A.A. Dhand, Abir Mukherjee and Vassem Khan, between them have allowed me to understand a culture I knew nothing about before reading their books. A.A. Dhand is an author who has illustrated to me the complexities of Sikhism …

All most set for Sandwell

Next Thursday the 2nd of November at two in the afternoon, I will be taking part in my first live panel in person with three of the countries most intriguing writers at Sandwell Literature Festival, covering both historical and modern Asian culture, with A. A. Dhand, Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee. Although I have done …

A Midlands Opportunity

Next month on the 16th of November, I'll be interviewing both Steven Dunne and Tom Mead at The Quad in Derby. After interviewing Tom on my own author page about his debut book, The Death of a Conjuror, I offered to do a live event with him about his second book, The Murder Wheel and …

The Power of Location

With Kate Rhodes' releasing her 7th book in the Kitto series, when Julia Crouch, the teacher of the course I'm currently doing with the National Centre for Writing, asked us to talk about a book whose use of location inspired us, her books were some of the first that came to mind. After i Interviewed …

Ready for the Interview

Now after reading three Cara Hunters' back to back, I'm fully up to date with her catalogue and ready for the final interview of my police procedural book, which I will be recording this Tuesday. Hope to Die is one of the strangest police procedurals that I've read in a while. When it opens with …