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Welcome to my website if you are a first time visitor, and welcome back to regular visitors. Gordon and I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

This year I'm writing a new book, Minding Frankie and so I am hard at work trying to finish it in good time. If all goes well, it will be published later this year in the UK and Ireland, and in the US this time next year.

And in Ireland and the UK, publication of The Return Journey has meant that both collections of short stories are available now. They are new to most British and Irish readers even though they were published overseas some years ago. I originally wrote them for magazines and newspapers and so I didn't want them in book form for a long time. I always hate it when I buy a book of short stories only to discover I've already read every one of them before. The stories were gathered into books and published, first in Australia and New Zealand, then in the USA and throughout the world. The UK publishers were only allowed to sell them overseas. You could buy them at airports as well, because once you are through passport control you inhabit a strange no-man's land which they are allowed to call abroad.

That was the situation for some years, until eventually the collections were published in every territory except Ireland and the UK. It didn't seem right that these were the only places you couldn't find the stories and so eventually we agreed to publish here and I am delighted that both books are available everywhere now.

Best wishes,

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