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”.

  Sibling rivalry in the pigeon loft – ‘I was determined to be the executioner, to submit its body to one brief, last act of violence and free it from the daily round of humiliation and abandonment back in the loft’.