North Wales in the footsteps of Hopkins
Here’s a blog I wrote for the website TripFiction about the real-life locations for The Hopkins Conundrum. On a good day, the North Wales...
My day on the ‘Deutschland’
How a day on Brunel’s SS Great Britain in dry dock in Bristol helped me set the scene for my novel about Gerard Manley Hopkins and the...
The trap of “researchitis”
ALTHOUGH this is a short novel it took a long time to write. I fell into the age-old trap of “researchitis” – where delving into the real...
