It all began – at least the professional part of my writing career – as a ghostwriter working in the north-west of England – with a weekly newspaper column on football, its finances and its powerbrokers.

It was a long time ago, way back in the previous century.

As well as scribbling hackwork, I was working at real jobs: teaching in a godforsaken Catholic school in Holyhead. Later, it was as a Football League club secretary at Carlisle, fending off creditors and bankruptcy.

For the last decade or so, however, I have been blessed in being able to write full-time – or as near to full-time as any writer ever gets.

Some of the results of this period of artistic endeavour can be seen on this Home Page.

There have been two books about football, politics and power.

There has been a resurrection of my poetry, some of which may be found in the book, Radio Free Palestine.

So many stories, too, demanded to be told, some winning awards and commendations, some finding publication on both sides of the Atlantic, some available on this website.

The most recent tale, The Neglected Bookshop, is to be found in NewCon Press’s anthology, To the Stars and Back, a celebration of the life of Eric Brown, to which his friends and collaborators have all contributed new stories.

Those browsing beyond the Home Page will discover:

Regular blogs: forthcoming essays will feature

Eric Brown – a personal tribute

Writer’s Block – deaths and the writer

The Pickerel Irregulars – Cambridge writers

Communion of Cosiness – Celtic FC, Eire, and the Irish Holocaust

Three Great North American Novelists

The Difficulty of Novels – unfinished and new work

Free Writing: poems and short stories

News: regular posts, updates on work in progress and on publications

Personal: posts on passions (mostly reading, running, religion, and politics

Publications: a storyline of a writing career and a list of publications

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