Welcome to my official web site and blog. I am the author of The Curry Mile a novel set in Manchester's curry district. I teach creative writing as well as academic writing.

I was fortunate to have a great role model, my mother, who inspired me to take up the pen. This site is dedicated to fans and to lovers of creative writing...Read more


17 June 2015

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It's not every day that I get invited to speak to social entrepreneurs, but it happened, it really did and it was yesterday.  You see, as well as gallivanting as a writery sorta person, I have been living a secret double life - hey, just kidding! Seriously, this is the work that I do on a day-to-day basis and have been doing since 2001. I am the creative director (lowercase please) of  a fledgling social enterprise entitled...

10 April 2015

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For a while now, I've been intending to write something about a fab author who pens science fiction called Hugh Howey who wrote the Wool Trilogy. So, you haven't heard of the Wool Trilogy? Oh boy. Where have you been? Hugh Howey, appeared Deus Ex Machina in 2011 and rewrote science fiction and if that wasn't enough he also rewrote the book on self-publishing. Sure, others have emerged out of the silo of solitary writing too...but today I'm talking...

7 April 2015

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24 March 2015

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