MK Indie Book Fair 25^th October 2025

I had a great time yesterday at the MK Indie Book Fair – so good to see so many talented writers. We came home with books by Karen Banfield, Jonathan Stanyer  and Nicki Thornton, plus a long list of future reads.

There are now many more copies of Peggy in circulation and I hope she brings joy to her readers.

(Some of the visitors are a bit young to read Peggy just now, but they liked the cover.)

Writing News

I have now published my first novel, Peggy, and it's been an exciting time. I thought the writing would be the hard part but then came edits, read-throughs, formatting and uploading (then more edits). Peggy is available on Amazon as a paperback and Kindle edition. https://amzn.eu/d/gmchIvK

Or buy direct by clicking on this link - https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=pe9h7MWgZKmeAyirHyqfbgmZUSpOnZikubv8vVb4xPf

Peggy is a good read for anyone, but particularly for women who have lived one life and have an opportunity to change direction and become a new version of themselves in their later years. 

The blurb - 

On an ordinary Saturday morning Peggy hears her husband fall in the bathroom. A few hours later she finds herself widowed and free of his hateful ways. Now, in her late fifties, she must learn to navigate life as a single woman in a world she knows little about. Should she travel to make use of the languages she has secretly been learning? How can she begin to understand who to trust, who might be a friend and who might be more? Could she ever learn to love another person and more importantly, can she ever learn to love herself?

Peggy is a story of starting afresh; of understanding how to live with the past and make good decisions to secure a fulfilled future.

What next?

I've been trying to write a creative memoir for years, about teenage life in the mid-seventies - I'll get back onto that with some new ideas to throw in.  Also short story ideas keep popping into my head now there's some space in there - we'll see.