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In the early 1990s, and for nearly a decade, I was a civilian contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense, assigned first in Belarus and, later, in Kazakhstan. My job was to assist in the dismantlem…
14 Dec 2023
The true crime that inspired my novel, The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou, had me hooked from the start. In 1954, Styllou Christofi, a 53-year-old Cypriot grandmother, came to England to visit her so…
29 Nov 2023
Throughout my screenwriting career I often thought, wistfully, about the notion of writing a novel. Partly to see if I was capable of creating prose in that form, but also because I felt it might in s…
22 Nov 2023
There have been more devastating demolition jobs wreaked upon a man’s character by playwrights, but surely none is older than that done by the Athenian Euripides to Jason, leader of the Argonauts. “Y…
06 Nov 2023
The tide had retreated late that evening, laying a ledge of grey sand in its wake where all else now sparkled in the dusk like a desert of broken glass. For too long, this was all she’d dreamt of – a…
31 Oct 2023
I have always been interested in the significance of dreams. What is our brain trying to tell us, as we sleep? Is it really trying to show us what we should be afraid of? Can it really predict our fut…
30 Oct 2023
Well I was primed by having read and re-read the Brontë sisters’ books, and a number of books about the family - my wife and I have visited the Brontë Parsonage, and I even furtively touched the couch…
25 Oct 2023
Wolves picks up the day after Essex Dogs ends: it follows continuous, as they say in Hollywood. The battlefield is steaming, the Dogs are mostly alive if not exactly well, and if they think they’re go…
06 Oct 2023
I don't think it's a secret that Vesuvius makes an appearance in this book! When I was planning the trilogy I knew the eruption would be a part of the story but didn't want to write a frustratingly ab…
04 Oct 2023
It should come as no surprise that I’m a huge fan of historical fiction. Within the genre I’ve read several stories where a warrior becomes a monk in later life, setting aside his sword and living out…
08 Sept 2023
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