Stuck in a limbo and desperate to do something meaningful, what to do? That is where writing began for me. A creative way of expressing myself and a chance to harness my wondering imagination. I close my eyes and I'm there. Wish I'd picked 'there' as a warm sunny day on a sandy beach, with the waves gently lapping on the shore...but I have to let the story load in my mind, then watch it unfold, wherever it may be. Currently I'm on a windy bridge, or a Devon beach, or a Cornish tin mine, or a submarine, or looking towards a Hebridean port...
I’ll be doing a books signing of my Aberystwyth to Carmarthen railway history book – and all novels, at the Vale of Rheidol steam festival on: Saturday 24th August Sunday 25th August in the new museum. Pop in and say hello! https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/events/rheidol-steam-festival-2024/
Here’s a video I have put together to introduce the upcoming history book (click on link below)
I am happy to announce the imminent release of my first non-fiction book. To be published by Lightmorr Press, it is a pictorial record of the railway between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen. Closed gradually between 1965 and 1973, the line was a rambling rural affair that was conceived as a commercial dream to allow the mills […]
The December edition of the Ego magazine features a review of my latest novel 🙂 Available via this website or all good independent bookshops and a few other nice people EGO Magazine December 23
The Ego published an article that I wrote about the historical Manchester & Milford railway. As the name indicates, it ran from Aberystwyth to one mile north of Pencader. Read on… (https://ego.today/nov23 ) – is the link to the whole magazine A new book that I have written about the history of the railway from […]
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After a long wait (mainly caused by a Masters degree taking up all my thoughts), I am in the throes of releasing ‘A Light in the Darkness’, a new novel. It is the final chapter of the mining trilogy, involving Owain Thomas and his family. Taking up the story from 1899, Owain recants his fortunes, […]
It wasn’t a bad day today, weather wise. The predicted rain stayed in the clouds and the sun shone through. Stuck for something to do on a bank holiday, we elected to go for a walk – but where? There are always ‘usual suspects’ in our routines, but I fancied to try and locate a […]
‘It’s been busy and quiet’… my update as to pre-production notes for the film. I’ve managed to visit South Wales with a camera and spent a morning filming walls! Why? so it can be put on a green screen and it can be used as a backdrop to the stage when filming – so we […]
I have been out on the road doing some preliminary location shoots for my Masters dissertation, ‘Senghenydd’. Now, I am back and have analysed the results. I am hoping that most of this footage can be edited in some way or form into the final video. Being in South Wales on a visit, I had […]