Welcome to my first post on a new regular blog about my writing. I’m getting ready for the upcoming UK launch of my novel Bamboo Heart, published by Monsoon Books and have been thinking back to what first inspired me to write the book. It is the story of Tom, a British soldier during world war II who is captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore and sent to work on the Thai-Burma railway. Decades later his daughter Laura travels there to try to try to piece together wh

This is my very first blog post about my upcoming book, Bamboo Heart now published by Monsoon Books. It was inspired by my research into my dad's experience as a prisoner of war on the death railway in Thailand and is now available to order in the UK on both Kindle and in paperback. I was delighted to see it in the bookshops in Thailand a few weeks ago and can't wait to see it in shops here. Please have a look at my website for background on the death railway and more details