Way back in 2002, I heard a radio ad for the RTE Francis McManus Short Story competition. Two thousand words – I can do that. I had no idea who...

I have wanted to be an author ever since I was eleven and wrote my first ‘novel’ about a group of rabbits going on a perilous journey (eleven pages overflowing...

I’m not sure writing a novel was ever truly a conscious decision but having spent a lifetime in the hotel business I have always felt there was genuine potential. Not...

I wrote Coming From Nothing while living the millennial dream: in my mother’s house in County Down, sitting on my childhood bed, unsure where next year’s income was coming from....

The Cherry on Top of the Fruitcake Many tourists act a little wilder while on vacation in a foreign country than they do at home. This is even more pronounced...

The story of how this tale came to be was as remarkable as it was true. As great a fan of fiction as I had always been I had never...

I like to write about the very real and flawed people that we pass unnoticed in the street, just as they pass us eyes straight ahead. We all live inside...

Well, it finally happened, we went to Dublin and launched “the BOOK” on 23 May in Liberty Hall Dublin. We had a good turnout on the night with about 60...

The aim of my work is primarily to produce good entertainment to the widest possible demographic, however cultish and niche my novels may appear; widely accessible literature yet hard to...

I was born near Portsmouth, England in 1945 and lived my childhood within the Royal Dockyard as my Dad was dockyard copper. I only finally managed to escape the confines...