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...
‘This Week’ began 16 years ago and I began appearing regularly half way through its life span. For some inexplicable...
On the hottest day of the year so far, I make my first visit to the Felixstowe Book Festival. In...
The Lowdham Festival has welcomed me three times before but ahead of this year’s event I join my interviewer, John...
The establishment of any new independent bookshop is a cause for celebration; doubly so when it’s in my former constituency...
This photograph of me with Stephen Cosgrove, my interviewer at the Belfast Book Festival event last Thursday, shows my wife...
As you can tell from this photograph of me shaking hands with Andrew Wilson whilst preparing to leave the Roses...
Crewe and Nantwich are often spoken of as one, which is unsurprising given that the two towns form one parliamentary...
The Royal Hotel in Crewe was apparently constructed specifically to host a visit to the town by Queen Victoria. I...
Like any author, I’m never happier than when selling books. Helping me at Yarm was Drake’s Bookshop of Stockton-on-Tees. ...
If you look down to the right of this photo (taken on the roof-top of our hotel) you can just...
No photo from Shrewsbury – (an internal enquiry is underway and heads will roll!) – which means I can’t illustrate...
Here I am entering through the stage door of the Albany Theatre in Coventry. The baton representing UK City...
Yet more books to be signed as the theatre tour reaches the Devizes Wharf Theatre on a wet Sunday evening. Created...
The Torrington Plough Arts Centre has been flourishing in the town since 1975. Richard, the manager, told me that they put...
Here I am outside the fabulous Ocean venue on the seafront in Exmouth where my theatre tour arrived on the...
Mike Lanigan was my interviewer at the Ilminster Literary Festival. The venue was the Warehouse Theatre where Mike most recently...
Escaping the chaos of Brexit and the Tory Leadership contest, we spend a glorious weekend at the Bath Literary and...
Back to the theatre tour on Saturday evening at the beautiful ‘The Countess of Huntingdon’s Hall’ in Worcester. This 18th...
Noon on Saturday and I’m with John Sutherland discussing George Orwell at the Chipping Camden Literary Festival. John is Emeritus...
Here I am signing books provided by Walkers Bookshops, an independent bookseller with shops in Stamford and Oakham. My ‘Evening...
