Blog from the final ‘This Week’
‘This Week’ began 16 years ago and I began appearing regularly half way through its life span. For some inexplicable...
Felixstowe Book Festival
On the hottest day of the year so far, I make my first visit to the Felixstowe Book Festival. In...
Lowdham Book Festival
The Lowdham Festival has welcomed me three times before but ahead of this year’s event I join my interviewer, John...
Hull
The establishment of any new independent bookshop is a cause for celebration; doubly so when it’s in my former constituency...
Belfast
This photograph of me with Stephen Cosgrove, my interviewer at the Belfast Book Festival event last Thursday, shows my wife...
Tewksbury
As you can tell from this photograph of me shaking hands with Andrew Wilson whilst preparing to leave the Roses...
Nantwich
Crewe and Nantwich are often spoken of as one, which is unsurprising given that the two towns form one parliamentary...
Crewe
The Royal Hotel in Crewe was apparently constructed specifically to host a visit to the town by Queen Victoria. I...
Yarm
Like any author, I’m never happier than when selling books. Helping me at Yarm was Drake’s Bookshop of Stockton-on-Tees. ...
Stoke Newington
If you look down to the right of this photo (taken on the roof-top of our hotel) you can just...
