by Vincent | Mar 24, 2026 | Blog
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 Maxima. A ball of light magically appears at the tip of his wand,...
by Vincent | Jan 23, 2026 | Blog
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, and many people use it constantly. Holidays, family gatherings, a...
by Vincent | Nov 28, 2025 | Blog
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 series called The Veilway Chronicles. The stories are set in and...
by Vincent | Nov 11, 2025 | Blog
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 dollhouses and miniature furniture. If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you...
by Vincent | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog
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 unsettling. That’s exactly what I write. To show you what I mean, I’m...
