The walking fool

1.  Sweden  takes place in 1968, a very tumultuous year in American history. What makes this story relevant 50 years later, in 2018?   1968 ...

Hi everyone! A quick update on my writing "career." Following the demise of my publisher last year, my debut novel SWEDEN, about A...

As I've mentioned before , a lot of the  enquiries I get from readers of this blog are about maps. Usually they're from people who w...

I may have mentioned it before on this blog, but there's a 135 km-long loop trail around my hometown called the Christchurch 360 Tra...

So, reviews of my debut novel, Sweden , are trickling in, and so far they're pretty good. In the  Midwest Book  Review,  senior ...

Some photos from a visit the other day to the recently opened Christchurch central library, called Tūranga .   Christchurch  has been withou...

It's 1968. As war rages in Vietnam, a group of American deserters holed up in Japan plot their escape with help from local peace acti...