Books

When my Dad finally made it to the top of the allotment waiting list aged 86, he was offered an unpromising jungle of a plot. He told me I’d always dreamt of becoming an allotmenteer and a ten-year gardening adventure began, full of resentment, disappointment and potatoes large enough to appear on Google Earth. Ted…

In twenty closely linked stories, Bushmeat explores an expatriate family’s two year stay in 1960’s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. The title story won top prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2016, and New Welsh Rarebyte went on to publish it, together…

At thirty-two, Jennifer Spendlove no longer wants to put her life on hold to care for her hypochondriac Mum, Alicia. A habit of telling white lies contributes to her sense of stuckness. But when she embarks on a series of dates, it becomes very difficult to be honest. And when a sex-crazed Italian hairdresser enters…

Old Blue Car brings together 23 of my own favourite poems, all published for the first time elsewhere. The poems will take you all the way from Addingham bypass to Gumusluk beach in Turkey, via Woolley Edge Service station and Cheltenham Town Hall. If you’d like to hear the title poem, Old Honda, as performed…