| ‘Even
if you are the sole source of a story, and you
keep it under your hat, it escapes somehow, it
leaks out from beneath the brim.’ So I wrote
in my first book, Breakfast
in Brighton. Telling
stories - and sometimes making them happen - is
what I have done in a variety of forms since my
first published newspaper feature 20
years ago. |
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I have written five books, including
the bestselling travelogue Breakfast
in Brighton and the critically acclaimed novel for teenagers,
The
Wrong Hands. I have also looked in the eyes
of both shamans and jaguars - for 13 years I
was the deputy travel editor of The Daily Telegraph
and I continue to travel across the world in
order to write articles for that newspaper and
for other leading British publications. In between,
my drama writing for BBC Radio 4 has been brought
to life by such actors as Stephen Tompkinson
and the Oscar-winning Imelda Staunton. |
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| I was born near Wolverhampton
(hence my lifelong support for Wolverhampton Wanderers)
and spent formative years in South Yorkshire and
West Sussex. I live in a flat next to the River Thames
in south-west London with my partner and our dog.
We also have a 'Romantic
poet’ sort
of cottage in the Hampshire countryside
where I do most of my writing. |
