Author | Writer | Photographer ~ Writing from the Welsh Borders
Well, it’s going to be a busy first week of July, as Blooming Murder goes on a virtual tour! I’ve answered so many questions my …
I am fortunate enough to have an independent bookshop in town, and the brilliant (if you want to know how brilliant, check out the shortlists …
During the last 18-months most train lines have been quiet. But here in the Welsh Borders, they were never that busy in the first place, …
I’ve just published my novel, Blooming Murder. Hooray! (Well, it’s a hooray from me, because it’s been quite a journey.) Just like many authors, the road …
Where are the Welsh Borders? It’s a common question (often asked by those living in the United Kingdom). It comprises the English administrative counties on …
So, you’ve decided to enter a writing competition and discovered I’m judging. Well, congratulations! You’ve certainly come to the right place. (And, actually, even if …
The May 2021 issue of Country Walking magazine has my six-and-a-bit stroll around Ludlow and Bromfield. Ironically, here we are just coming out of Lockdown …
Nobody likes being rejected. Especially when you’ve spent hours, weeks, months (or even years, if it’s a novel) writing something. To many writers, particularly novices, …
“Shropshire? Oooh, You’ll get a lot of weather up there!” That’s what most people in London said when they heard I was moving to Shropshire …
My Clun Valley feature is the front cover feature of the latest issue of The People’s Friend. Although a quiet corner of Shropshire, there’s a lot going on there, and it’s easy to spend a whole week exploring the delights the valley has to offer.
AE Housman’s poem, A Shropshire Lad, epitomises the Clun Valley in the lines:
Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun
Are the quietest places
Under the Sun
A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman