The sequel to In Knives We Trust – available soon I am delighted to announce that the second book in my series of novels about Inspector Rumsey Bucke will be published shortly. I will post more details once I have a clear publication date from Cambria Publishing who have agreed to take it on. Should…
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Lake Vyrnwy
This month Welsh Country Magazine has returned in printed form and you can buy it in supermarkets and newsagents across Wales, as well as on-line for just £2.95!My piece in the September edition examines the memorial at Lake Vrynwy in Powys which remembers the 44 men who died during the construction of this beautiful reservoir…
Welsh Country Magazine – May 2020 edition
Due to the Covid-19 drama, the magazine has been unable to produce a printed version of the magazine this month.However, the whole edition is now available on-line – for free!Click on this link here and you will be taken straight to the page featuring my own piece. In this edition as you can see, I…
Lockdown Literature 19 – Rosser Mort 1834
My daily contributions towards Lockdown reading matter continue and we have reached number 19. These pieces have all been published on my Facebook page.The latest piece, from 1834, is about the Swansea house-breaker, Rosser Mort Rosser Mort was committed to gaol for trial on 8 February 1834. At this moment his life entered its final…
Lockdown Literature
A pretentious title I know, but I do like a bit of alliteration. As a contribution to these strange times through which we are living I have been putting on my page on Facebook a story a day from my collection of the many oddities I have found from Swansea’s history. Many of them, like…
The Garden Pit Disaster 1844
My article in the March 2020 edition of Welsh Country Magazine is about the Garden Pit Disaster in Pembrokeshire in 1844. The memorial you can see here is on the backs of the Cleddau Estuary and carried the names of 40 victims who drowned in the mine when water burst in. The seam was only…
Swansea in the 1950s – additional stock received
I have received new stock! Swansea in the 1950s is available once again and there are more copies of Swansea in 50 Buildings availableSelect the How to Buy page in the menu at the top of the screen. Post and Packing are free on all titles
The Bleeding Stone of Adulam – Text
There has been a lot of interest recently in the tragic story of the Phillips sisters who drowned whilst collecting mussels. The piece was published in Welsh Country Magazine in January 2018 but has not appeared anywhere else. In order to allow more people to read it I have placed it below – The Bleeding…
Swansea and District Writers Circle
I have been invited to attend the Swansea and District Writers Circle on 4 March 2020. I have been asked to speak about the relationship between the research I do for my local history writing and my fiction. 7.15pm in the Civic Centre on Oystermouth Road.Could be a few gravestones involved then… I am looking…
Amelia Earhart
In the January 2020 edition of Welsh Country Magazine, my Story in Stone is about Amelia Earhart, the American aviator. Why? Well she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane. The seaplane, in which she was merely a passenger, got lost and landed at Burry Port on 18 June 1928, believing…