The Walrus Mutterer is reprinting

Added on 18 October 2020

Good news! The Walrus Mutterer is being reprinted, so it will be available again shortly and so I've put it back into my shop so you can order a signed copy here. There is a discount if you buy all three of The Stone Stories novel trilogy (including volumes 2 and 3, The Amber Seeker and The Lyre...

The Walrus Mutterer is out of print

Added on 01 October 2020

The Walrus Mutterer, the first volume of the Stone Stories iron age trilogy, is no longer available from the book distributor and I have run out of copies for sale, so sadly I have had to remove it from my website shop, as well as removing the special deal on buying the trilogy of novels. It is also...

The Liminal Zone

Added on 14 September 2020

I'm delighted to be starting a new project exploring the sea shore as a metaphor for edges and boundaries in our lives. The project is called 'The Liminal Zone' and it will last over the coming year. It is made possible thanks to funding from Creative Scotland. I'll be writing poetry...

Talking about books

Added on 04 August 2020

I'm excited and honoured to be taking part in an online 'Creative Conversation' with Kathleen Jamie, Gavin Francis and Sue Reid Sexton, on Thursday 13 August 2020 at 5.30. Everyone is welcome to come and join the Zoom event, which is organised by Publishing Scotland and Glasgow Universit...

Virtual Launch of The Lyre Dancers

Added on 03 April 2020

Thanks very much to Elizabeth Rimmer for hosting a virtual launch of The Lyre Dancers, given the cancellation of all my other April and May launch events. You can go to it here on her Burned Thumb website and blog. It's great that in this weird time of the corona virus lockdown there seems to be...

The Lyre Dancers is here!

Added on 21 March 2020

Today I launched The Lyre Dancers in an intimate little ceremony by the cave in the corner of the beach in Achmelvich - Traigh Blaran Eadir, otherwise Yates' beach, formerly Vestey's beach. All the other launch events have been cancelled due to the virus pandemic, but it seemed a shame not t...