Author Archives: pod1942

Eight years ago, I decided I was fed up with the cost of decent Christmas cards. I had a Christmas card list with 60 names on it and decent cards were costing at least £1. It was simply too much so I looked at the alternatives; either cut down the list or buy cheap mass-producedContinue reading “A Christmas show”

I thought readers may like a sample chapter from my latest novel, Walk a Crooled Road, which I am in the process of writing. I hope you all enjoy it. Chapter Forty-Three Toxteth, Liverpool Day 39 Maggie I didn’t have long to wait at the bus stop. Agnetha emerges from the pub and heads forContinue reading “A sample chapter”

Life in 1970 was completely different. So many things that we now take for granted were not there. No mobile phones. No interent. No DVDs. No streaming of anything. And nearly everyone smoked. It is against this background that A Walk on the Wilder Side is set. A thriller, wrapped in a mystery with theContinue reading “A new novel – set in 1970”

This is a paining of the world-famous Penny Lane, immortalised in the Beatles song of 1969. On the left is St Barnabas Church where Paul McCartney began his musical career. It was my Christmas card for 2019.

I began painting scenes that would become Christmas cards in 2015 and shortly all eight original artworks will go on show from November 26 until after Christmas at All Hallows church in Allerton, Liverpool. All Hallows is itself a famous building being Grade 1 with stained glass windows that are world-famous, having been created byContinue reading “More of my art”

My regular followers will know all about my novels but I also hold a Master’s degree in fine art and I reproduce here two examples of my work. Above is a pen and ink sketch called ‘The Guitarist’ and below is a painting I used for my 2015 Christmas card. It was the first andContinue reading “Art as well as novels”

This is a record of the steam locomotive in the UK in the 1960s when I was a keen photographer and took hundreds of shots on the railways in the thge dying days of steam in the North West of England. The book is a record of that and is now available of Amazon forContinue reading “Steam in the ‘Sixties”

For fans of Naomi, there are now two novels and one short story in which she is the primary character. The first has just been re-edited, updated and renamed as Pursued by Shadows which I talked about in my last post. The second, Kill Joy, is the most recent in which Naomi in which NaomiContinue reading “Naomi in retrospect”

A new Naomi novel is published today! It is called Pursued by Shadows and is the first full-length Naomi story in which she and a Canadian friend become involved in a plot to weaponize the weather. Against a background of climate change and activists, Naomi and Alex find themselves the target of criminal gangs intendContinue reading “A new Naomi novel”

Most of my stories are set in the city of Liverpool in England. It is also the city I live in but despite that the city is ideal for setting a story in. Indeed, it is used by many film and TV companies as a location, including the latest Batman film. Liverpool city centre isContinue reading “A city for stories”