Choosing an extract from a book to upload to Goodreads for prospective readers to take a look at can be difficult. Amazon simply makes the first 10% available, but that is not necessarily the extract that will have the most …
I bought this book in W H Smith at Manchester Airport before a three week trip to Saudi Arabia and South Africa. I didn’t much like the cover but I do like historical crime fiction, the book had a “Buy …
When you get to my age it’s inevitable that you sometimes wonder: If I get there, what will Heaven be like? Well, now I know. Heaven will be like Sunday lunch at Punchinello’s at The Southern Sun Montecasino in Johannesburg.…
As with my last post, I was the author of this post and I am lifting it from the Mandrill Press website where it first appeared.
I arrived at Cairo International Airport and got onto the bus operated by the …
She stood on the bridge at midnight is, of course, the opening line of that liberal anthem of which the first verse runs:
She stood on the bridge at midnight
Throwing snowballs at the moon
She said, “Jack, I’ve never …
I’m editing Poor Law, the sequel to A Just and Upright Man and second in the five book James Blakiston series. At least, I thought I was. But a couple of days ago a series of strokes of the sort …
True to Life? Or Photoshopped? March 4, 2013 By sfhopkins
Some of my favourite writers are those who appear to draw their characters from life – warts and all. But I did say “appear”. Because many of the stories that …
I was in that place I knew so well that I’d always thought of as Between Women. And then I realised that I wasn’t.
I’d been between women several times in the past, and always with a combination of sadness …
The visible crises in A Just and Upright Man are the murder of Reuben Cooper and James Blakiston’s search for the killer, and Blakiston’s equally urgent wish to deny—to himself as much as to anyone else—that he is in love …
Belly dancers in the Middle East were usually Egyptian or Lebanese and they were big. Not fat, necessarily–though some were–but there was plenty of them. For several years now, the ones you see in hotels and restaurants in the UAE …