This morning, Sunday 27th June 2010, an air of tension hangs in the air, like Christmas, but with the sizzling sun baking the green fields and rolling hillsides of the British Isles, instead of the cold and frost. Today, Britain is breathless, waiting, hopeful, heady, hung-over, hungry for success, patriotic, for once palpitatingly in unison, [...]

Lucky me to be writing a 1920′s saga. Though not literally a lengthy trawl through the years, but as my agent requested, a shorter, nuts and bolts story with tension! And I’m happy to oblige, since my current book is influenced by some of our most well known celebrities. Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman [...]

In the excitement of the World Cup, we’ve had a sobering moment, the tragedy of Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter who died in a car crash. I read this announcement with sadness, but was touched to learn that Mr Mandela, during his eighteen years of imprisonment on Robben Island, created his own soccer league that eventually won [...]

Always an exciting event for an author - the day when the book jacket cover arrives of the novel you’ve been working on, day and night for the past year. Not necessarily at the computer, but in your head, your thinking, your internal dialogue, staunchly continuous no matter where you are, who you are talking to, [...]