Art renews the people – anti-austerity graffiti in Palermo.

What You Will See (Prizewinning Poems 1995-2006) out 1st May 2019. Pre-order here.

I live in the south west of England with a very patient @grumblecat. I’m a regular visitor to Dorset, England, where my 5 Star Readers’ Favorite book, The Punished, is set. Britain was rebuilding after WWII, but not the Dorset village of Tyneham, occupied by the army since 1943.

Contemporary, Literary Fiction. Stories at Mondays Are Murder (Akashic), Pif, Eclectica, Big Pulp and others.

Poems in The North, Iota, Seam and Blade amongst others. Prizes in the Yorkshire, Dulwich, Exeter and Berkshire competitions: What You Will See (Gatto, 2006)

Favourite writers: Magnus Mills, Franzen, Eggers, Eugenides, Munro, Carver, Kelman and Self.

Novel #2: Stop the World, I Want to Get On (aka The Marquis and Tiger Hugs: Authonomy closed Sept 2015).

Novel #1: Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years (Createspace, 2005).