Lumos Maxima – Real magic is reading, because reading unlocks the magic of imagination. In the opening minutes of The Prisoner of Azkaban film, Harry is under his bedcovers casting the spell Lumos...
An Obsessive Advantage: Why I Photograph Everything. All of us carry a phone in our pocket from the moment we get up until the moment we go to bed, which means we carry a camera everywhere we go,...
Bert the Bat's First School Visit For the past year I have been quietly working on the outline and first draft of Bert the Bat, the opening book in what I hope will become a middle grade novel...
The Birth of Arthur Pendry – and no, it wasn’t a cold and windswept Cornwall; it was a sunny and warm Sussex. People are magpies by nature; we all collect something. Some collect toy cars, others...
Hello and welcome to my new website, Bert the Bat and the world Beyond the Veil If you’re here, you like stories with atmosphere — not twee sugar — but the kind that sit right between cosy and...