World Tour of Yorkshire
5 November 2015I’ve been on an intermittent book tour since the start of August but, barring a couple of “outliers” next year, I reach the end of … Read More
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I’ve been on an intermittent book tour since the start of August but, barring a couple of “outliers” next year, I reach the end of … Read More
If you’re out and about in Yorkshire over the next few weeks and want to know more about Pigs Might Fly or The Inn At … Read More
A really nice piece on “Pigs Might Fly” and the real life “Inn at the Top” (aka Tan Hill), filmed by Philip Chapman , was … Read More
Gearing up for the launch of my new book Pigs Might Fly on Monday, the first self-published one I’ve been involved in, after more than … Read More
If you’re at a loose end today and fancy a little trip “Oop Dale” you can catch one of the great Yorkshire experiences: the annual … Read More
This from my New Yorker best mate, Barry Fast, in today’s NY Times Diary http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/translating-the-muni-meter/?ref=topics&_r=0: I was parking on the Upper East Side, on Second … Read More
Spoiler alert: I watched a programme called Secret Britain on BBC TV the other night, mainly because it included a segment on The Inn at … Read More
I was up at the highest inn in Great Britain http://www.tanhillinn.com a couple of days ago and was delighted to find it in rude good … Read More
Went to a Burns Night dinner this weekend – great time, though general overconsumption of whisky did turn the post-dinner Scottish country dancing into human … Read More
A tip of the hat to Amanda Foreman in today’s Sunday Times for unearthing this quotation by a US college professor about his students: “Indulged, … Read More
Thanks to the largesse of the estates of A.A. Milne, Somerset Maugham, et al, the Royal Literary Fund probably supports more living writers than many … Read More
Stand by for a tune on the world’s smallest violin: There’s cheerful news for authors this week in a survey by ALCS aka The Authors’ … Read More
No surprise that Tony Bliar should claim this week that the Bush/Blair invasion of Iraq in 2003 had played no part in the country’s current … Read More
I’m “doing a turn” at the Dales Festival of Food and Drink – http://www.dalesfestivaloffood.org – in Leyburn, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday, … Read More
I travel a lot and like many people, I tend to use Tripadvisor http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ when looking for hotels or restaurants in unfamiliar places. I also … Read More
Last week, for the first time in years, I returned to my home town, a Victorian model village and Unesco World Heritage site. When I … Read More
In the unlikely event that there is anyone out there who, for some unaccountable reason, has yet to purchase a copy of The Inn At … Read More
Manuscript finally delivered, stress frown turned upside down, I’m back in the game! For those who’ve read The Inn at the Top – and with … Read More
Deadline looming – help! But if any Kindle-equipped readers out there have so far failed to buy a copy of The Inn at the Top, for … Read More
Two looming deadlines mean that I’ll have to suspend blogging activity for the moment – I need to be writing books, not talking about writing … Read More