Why a vampire, why Shanghai, why the 1920s?

I have just officially launched my new book, The Hopping Ghost.It's a ripping yarn in the roaring 20s, about a sassy Scottish vampire learning to be a human again in old Shanghai.I know that's a weird combination. At the launch, I finally got...

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Watching whales watching us

I have just finished writing a book about what the world is like after the environmental collapse. (Spoiler: it's shit.) So after being in that apocalyptic headspace for so long, I was ecstatic to have a pod of humpback whales within touching...

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The Hopping Ghost

 After being imprisoned for decades, the vampire Hepzibah finds herself suddenly free in 1922.The beast inside her wants to ravage, rob and roam. And dirty dangerous Shanghai is the perfect hunting ground for a killer of men.But Hepzibah's...

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William Fairbairn, toughest man in the Empire

I first came across the name of William Fairbairn on a knife.In my book Chick Magnet, the main character Mick runs a stall at Paddy's Market, where he sells electronic gadgets and knives.For the sake of the story, he needed an expensive knife...

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Why are the ads so loud?

Whether you’re listening to the radio or watching TV, it seems like those ad breaks come bursting out of the speaker at double the volume of the programs around it.It’s annoying, and to make it worse, all the TV and radio stations deny that...

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