What can you find on this site? Unique, entertaining and insightful writing, including original fiction, reviews and published journalism. Here you go:
1. Fine original fiction and writing tips
You can learn all about my famous Hotel Stories or, if you know about them already and want to acquire the outstanding-value Hotel Stories: the Complete Collection on Kindle, go to Amazon.com (for US readers) or Amazon.co.uk (for Brits).
You can explore my novel Biotime through the category Biotime Themes; or try reading the first 30% or so of the novel, in one chunk, for free.
You can see top tips about writing under Writing about Writing, for example:
2 sets of brilliant tips on “how to write” (George Orwell vs Henry Miller)
How to work better: 10 rules? Or not?
Valley of the Rogue – excerpt from the story of one the last people to hitch-hike around the USA
7 tips for writing the perfect article (part 1 of 2)
The 4 elements of the perfect article: Nut-grafs & Cosmic Kickers (part 2 of 2)
Discoverability and the joys of e-book marketing: part 1 of 2
Discoverability and the joys of e-book marketing: part 2 of 2
2. Reviews
A popular new feature. You can see them all, or choose from the list below:
Tuchman’s Law (or “Always look on the bright side”?): 9/10
Zombeavers? Yes! Prometheus? Yes! A girl walks home alone at night? Not yet… and Tokyo Tribes 9/10
Human beings vs the State: Captain Fantastic vs I, Daniel Blake
Trollope: 11 reasons to read him 10/10
Museum of Innocence: how men think? 8/10
6 reasons “The Neon Demon” makes “Showgirls” look like Shakespeare 2/10
The Internet. 7 reasons why it will destroy civilisation
The Walk – high wire movie 7/10
DON’T PANIC: a communications masterclass 10/10
The Wave: 5 reasons to miss it & 7 reasons you must see it 9/10
Spectre: 5 reasons to miss it & 5 reasons you’ll see it 4/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 6 reasons I was surprised 8/10
Independence Day 2: Oh, my God! 1/10
How to be happy: 11 simple tools
Football: how to fix FIFA and World Cup corruption
The Force Awakens: 6 reasons I was surprised 8/10
Want to smartphone detox? Here’s how
3. Top journalism
Includes my pieces in:
– Financial Times, “Behind every great woman…” (challenges facing male partners of successful women)
– Financial Times, “Where the wall came down” (a walk around the Berlin Wall)
– Financial Times, “Island with well-hidden treasures” (Lundy Island)
– Financial Times, “A tale of two all-in resorts” (German holiday resorts are better than French ones)
– Financial Times, “Rag’n’bones to riches” (80th birthday of Mary, from Arsenal)
– Financial Times, “Austrian idyll far from the well-worn pistes” (the joy of Lech)
– Financial Times, “When dinner becomes the last supper” (astonishing German waiters)
– Financial Times, “Enough Buddhas for today” (Bangkok with children)
– Financial Times, “We’ll soon all beg to fly business” (how airlines plan to make us upgrade)
– Die Welt, “Im Dienst Ihrer Majestät” (in German: women’s diplomatic careers)
– Financial Times, “Balmy breezes and beach bars in Berlin”
– Financial Times, “Where even experts fear to tread” (why try guided ski-ing?)
– Financial Times, “Sole mates” (Strolz ski boots)
– Boston Globe, “New Zealand at a crossroads” (over-development of NZ tourism)
– Financial Times, “The Penguin’s Distressed. We’d Better Go” (NZ eco-tourism)
– Financial Times, “The Joy of Roaming the English Countryside” (long-distance footpaths)
– Financial Times Magazine, “All the Rage in Berlin” (Little Traffic Light Men)
– Financial Times, “From Tears to Triumph” (why use ski schools?)
– Financial Times Magazine, “All the Rage in Lech, Austria” (heated ski lift seats)
– Financial Times, “Rattle and Roll to the Alps” (night ski-trains)
– Financial Times, “Charmed By the No-Frills Alternative” (basic country hotels)
– Boston Globe, “A flaming end to Carnival and winter’s woes” (Cologne Carnival)
– Financial Times, “When Tourist Reinvention Spins Out of Control” (the over-development of Barcelona)
– Boston Globe, “A Temple to Faith, Time and Resolve” (Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia)
– Financial Times, “Nice Buildings, Shame About the Events” (Can hosting sporting events give a country good PR?)
– Boston Globe, “When hush, crowds descend” (Vienna’s Central Cemetery)
– Boston Globe, “History in the Tropics” (St Helena before the airport)
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