The Book Shop at Lee-on-the-Solent is hosting a small literary crime festival on the 28th March 2026. There will be readings and talks by authors, and of course lots of criminally good books on sale.

I’ll be there with my Little Mallow cosy crime series, romantic crime novel Acting Like A Killer, and two collections of short crime stories.

If you’re not already subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, the next time you attempt to buy a book included in the scheme, such as this one, or any pictured in this post, there’s a very good chance you’ll be offered a three month trial at a very low fee. I’ve just paid a total of 99p for three months! For that, as well as being able to ‘borrow’ as many of the included books as you like, you can also subscribe to up to 50 magazines.

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My little free short story collection, Not A Drop To Drink is currently an Amazon.uk ‘bestseller’ in the category for British and Irish anthologies!

Strictly speaking it isn’t an anthology, as I wrote all seven of the stories (anthologies are collections by various authors). I’m also not entirely sure you can describe something that’s not on sale as a bestseller – but don’t let those little pedantic details put you off downloading a copy.

Get it, for free, here.

If you’re able to access Overdrive via your library membership, you can now read all my books for free. The ones with mauve bands at the top and bottom are single short stories – the others are novels or short story collections.

The complete books should also be available through over services, such as Borrow Box, Odilo and Cloud Library, but you may have to request them through those services.

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Here are a few random photos, just to let you know the kind of thing you’d be letting yourself in for.

All of my collections of slightly spooky stories are currently on sale for 99p (or 99c on the US).

Not long ago, on a dreich day, we walked along the Ayrshire coast towards Greenan castle. On the way, we met a charming lady (I think she may be called Morag) and her delightful Scottie dogs (or dugs as they’re known round here) called Hamish and Robbie. Each had a tartan collar and bow. As we went our separate ways, Morag called the bots away to their porridge – apparently they like some every morning.

I ‘stormed the castle’ (OK, scrambled up the steep path), had a look round, then Gary and I went back to the van for tea, Empire biscuits, and shortbread.

Zymology is the scientific study of fermentation.

I don’t do this, but I do sometimes study the results in a very unscientific way.

Cheers!