Dubai for the Literary Festival again, the 12th edition. It was, as ever, lovely to be back, to meet up with old friends and to make new ones. This year Dubai also hosted an informal conference of … [Read more...] about Dubai Literary Festival
Books
Launch party at Foyles
My memoir An Accidental Bookseller has finally been published! On Monday we had a launch party at Foyles, attended by 170 people, a great mixture of family, friends and book-trade people (most of them … [Read more...] about Launch party at Foyles
My first real book!
I collected the first printed copy of my first book (note the optimism – having rekindled my enjoyment of writing there could be more!) a few days ago. I took a taxi from Milton Keynes station to … [Read more...] about My first real book!
Chipping Norton Litfest
Another successful Chipping Norton Literary Festival, the eighth. I enjoy literary festivals; strangely the first one I ever went to was one which I helped set up, the Emirates Airline Festival of … [Read more...] about Chipping Norton Litfest