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Shirley Read-Jahn: Life, Writing, Illustrating, Dancing & Parkinson's Disease
Shirley Read-Jahn is an old friend or, more accurately, an old friend of my mother's who I've also come to know and love over the years. If you've read my third novel The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale, you'll remember that my protagonist…

Publication of new book: The Sky Within - A Memoir of Sleep
My fourth book (and first non-fiction offering), winner of the Backlash Press prize for non-fiction, has been published!
It's not very easy to describe how it makes me feel to finally see this book in print. I've been working on it physically…