Last Thursday, and following my blog article of the week before, thousands of former Taiwanese government employees, civil servants, police officers, military servicemen, schoolteachers and many others, marched on the government offices including the office of the Prime Minister. Their aim was simple: to protest over the Taiwanese Prime Minister’s decision to cut all these retired and loyal […]
Today I had the great privilege of conducting a book signing in Waterstones in Sutton, the London Borough of which lovely Jan and I are residents and have been for the last 41 years. Although the day started slowly – it took nearly two hours to sell one book – things really picked up after […]
Lovely Jan and I have many friends in Taipei, the capital of the great country of Taiwan, Republic of China. Many of our friends there are retired public servants including members of the security services, the military and the police. So you can imagine my astonishment and consternation when I learnt from one of my […]
Originally posted on nonsuch rotary club:
You probably know from our previous blogs that our Rotary Club, Sutton Nonsuch, is twinned with Meppen Rotary, a great club in North West Germany. It hardly seems just over a week ago that a group of our German friends from the Meppen club came to visit us. In…
Yesterday I did a book signing at the wonderful store that WHSmith have in the Bentall Centre in Kingston. I met some truly interesting people there, many of whom bought a signed copy of my latest novel, Expulsion. One of the first people I met was a lady who loved Phillipa Gregory’s novels and quite took […]
