This is a ‘lightly-fictionalised’ account of taking part in a 50-mile walk organised in the early 1960s by my school in response to a challenge issued by President John F Kennedy to the US Marines. It describes an almost successful day of walking in a huge circuit from Weymouth via Dorchester to the east of the county and Read the full article…

I was very saddened to hear of the death of literary agent, Carole Blake. I met and had some correspondence with her in 2014 and she was incredibly helpful and encouraging about my writing. I had submitted a synopsis and the opening chapters of my novel ‘Whereof One Cannot Speak’ to a competition for attendees Read the full article…

  “As a child the physical appearance on maps of my home town and its surrounding coastline gave me a thrill each time I saw it. The Naples of England. That was what people called Weymouth, my father told me, because of its perfect bay”.