New Novel
I’m very pleased to announce that my second novel will be published by Palewell Press, with a provisional publication date of October 2026. The novel’s entitled Songs from a Bookshop, and it’s set in 1956-57. Most of the action is in London and it’s about a mixed-race marriage: Edmund, London-Welsh and Nafah, exiled Palestinian. The Suez Crisis of 1956 creates strains in their…
Quotable Quotes
I’m writing a second novel, set in 1956-57. It’s an account of the breakdown of a marriage. In the background there’s a lot of music (trad-jazz and folk revival) and there’s the Suez Crisis. I have read extensively round these subjects and I found that several times I was struck by particular lines or phrases, which reflected key themes or episodes in the…