London is full of echoes and shadows of the past. Sometimes this past was barbarically cruel towards those who were different. These poems are poems of remembering and healing.

I've drafted the novel 5 times now, and edited it twice. I think I need some fresh eyes on it now!

In ‘Green Twining’ the farmhouse of Green Twining Farm either literally is, or maybe just feels haunted. It is certainly haunted by memories of a painful family history which make it hard to move or even breathe without coming into rhythm with an uncomfortably restrictive past. And every time the walls of the farmhouse move a little more, settling a little further towards the little stream which flows past the farm, the building creaks and groans. Visitors are few and infrequent. The whole...

I'm really happy to announce that my novel "Green Twining" was a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 2025.

Here are the reviews from the Wishing Shelf readers:

Male, 29
A beautiful, heartfelt story with memorable characters and a romance I couldn't
help rooting for. Warm, emotional and quietly uplifting—I flew through it in just a
couple of evenings.

Female, 48
This book completely won me over.
The romance is lovely, but it's the healing that stayed with me. Watching Joe slowly
believe he...

In Green Twining the sea is a presence always just a short distance away across the town centre of Scawthorpe or across the fields from Green Twining Farm. Whenever one or other of the Coffin family feels upset or out of sorts, the waves of the North Sea are just the thing to soften things a little and absorb a little of their roused emotions.

And in particularly difficult times, you might find yourself throwing hard little rocks into the water. But at more contemplative times it might be rose...