After a long break, I’ve finally started posting on my blog again – if you’re interested, you can find it at www.octopus-in-my-ouzo.blogspot.com. You can also connect via my Facebook page and my Instagram. Thanks to everyone who has supported my new book, AN ISLAND HOME AND A SALTY DOG, currently only available on Amazon, directly […]
Michael Pugh’s magical story of his journey on horseback from Russia to Romania came out in July. Riding Through War and Peace takes the reader back to 2014, when it was still possible to travel that way through the Russian countryside, with its bucolic meadows and atmospheric battles sites and forgotten aristocratic estates, and into
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Well, I did it – I finished the new book! About six years of Greek island life on Tilos with my dog since I bought my house. Thanks to the professional freelancers Debbie (editor), Ian (copy-editor), Ben (designer) and Rosie (cover illustration), I was able to self-publish with confidence and release it in June, as
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Bestselling author Katie Carr has written a beautiful book of narrative non-fiction about, as she puts it, ‘sea, weather, family and the quiet work of finding your way after loss’. It’s about kayaking and motherhood, resilience and joy: https://summersdale.com/titles/katie-carr/thundery-at-times/9781837998388/ For a few years now I’ve worked with Canadian author Marion Crook giving early editorial feedback on
To help mark the 140th anniversary of Theodore Bent’s 1885 book ‘The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks’, here I am reading some sections from the chapter on Santorini – now on YouTube. ‘On entering the basin of Santorin, one experiences directly the pleasant impression of seeing something utterly new…’
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For all of September, my book TAVERNA BY THE SEA has been featured on the prizes banner of the Facebook group We Love Memoirs! It’s a wonderfully supportive group and members have been posting some lovely reviews (‘made me long for sun-filled days on an idyllic Greek beach…’… ‘makes the reader feel as if they