Good news for my American fans. My US publisher wants to bring out The Wrong Way Home and Swahili for the Broken-Hearted in the States next May. It’ll mean coming over to the West Coast for a couple of weeks to do some talks and shake some hands but I think I’ll be able to  Read more »

I just came across an entry about me and my books on Tony Wheeler’s blog. Tony Wheeler is the founder of the Lonely Planet empire and said that Swahili for the Broken-Hearted was ‘nicely open-minded.’ Not sure what he means exactly, but it’s got to be better than ‘not very nicely closed-minded.’

Readers of Swahili for the Broken-Hearted might remember that while I was in Nairobi I got work as an extra on the Academy Award winning movie ‘Nowhere in Africa.’ I played the part of a German prisoner and got paid the princely sum of $US150 for three days work. Well, apparently, the movie was just  Read more »

I’m beginning to think that March is the month that cover designers in the publishing industry get most of their work done. Moments after receiving the cover for the Estonian version of No Shitting in the Toilet, I got the new cover for the UK version of Swahili for the Broken-Hearted. I’m really pleased with  Read more »