I was born and raised a Catholic. A happy, rosary-bead-swinging, white confirmation-dress-wearing Roman Catholic. For a while I went to church everyday, and certainly every Sunday without fail; I did the Stations of the Cross, and I knew my Catechism by heart. I truly believed a sacrament was an outward sign of inward grace, and…

It turns out it is simply not enough to research and write a book if you are self publishing. No, you also have to design the cover.

I’d long admired Claire Keegan as a writer, it’s hard to think of another author who elicits emotion as powerfully as she does. However, I’m only a recent member of the Cillian Murphy Fanclub. Of course, I’ve enjoyed the odd episode of Peaky Blinders and watched Oppenheimer (on the small screen), he seemed to be…

Here’s me speaking at a demo in Ramsgate, which I’d helped to organise with SOS (Save Our Seas) Ramsgate.

How do you see yourself? If you had to describe ‘you’ what words and phrases would you choose to use?

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