Does anyone read this blog? From my stats, I suspect it’s mostly Chinese bots, unless I have a super-fan in China who is obsessively reading my pages. If that’s you, please identify yourself. If no one human is reading, I only have myself to blame. I haven’t been especially diligent at updating it. The digital …
New podcast launches This week sees the launch of an epic new podcast series, Real Vikings, from the Noiser Network. Yes, I know the word epic is overused. But in this case, it’s justified, believe me. I was fortunate to work as a scriptwriter on the show, writing half the episodes. It was about a …
In a previous post, I mentioned that my new novel Cover Story had been picked by spy fiction superfan and journalist Tim Shipman as one of his top reads of 2025. Now Tim has gone one further, awarding the book a coveted Mole in his annual awards, The Golden Moles. It picked up Bronze Mole …
As picked by one of the UK’s leading spy fiction aficionados. Tim Shipman is a political journalist of some renown and the author of four hefty books about Brexit: All Out War, Fall Out, No Way Out and Out. He’s also a massive fan of spy fiction and one of the founders of the website …
By “this”, I mean keeping my blog up to date. For example, on Thursday I had a new book come out. Cover Story. I should have really posted something on the blog to mark the occasion, but I forgot. So this is like one of those “sorry I missed your birthday” cards. Addressed to my …