Coming up with a new idea for a novel is an interesting process. You get ideas from all sorts of places; from people you meet and stories they tell, from newspapers and magazines, maybe from incidents that happen to you. You run with an idea, sketch out a synopsis – often no more than a […]
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That’s the provisional title for the new novel I’m working on. Set in a small Berkshire town with a corrupt local council and greedy developers it is the heart-warming story of how one boy who cannot speak sets out to save his neighbourhood. It’s something that could just happen in your own town. With so
Those of you who have read my latest book “Nothing Happens up There” will know that the plot includes an American company producing genetically edited barley in a secret laboratory in Lincolnshire. The results can prove fatal. If that sounded far-fetched, think again. Gene editing, using CRISPR techniques was in its early experimental form when
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