I’m the author of the historical crime novel The Mystery At Rake Hall; C.S.Lewis Investigates, which was published in hardback by Swift Press on 24 April 2025; the hardback edition was published on 1 January this year (2026). The Times and The Telegraph both included it in their 2025 round-ups of the Best Crime Fiction of the year. A second C.S.Lewis Investigates novel, The Gargoyles Mystery, will be published in 2027. I’m also a published non-fiction author. My background is in journalism, starting out in the pop-music press and moving on to Fleet Street in 1979. For the Daily Express, I’ve worked as a sub-editor, a television and theatre critic, a feature writer and an interviewer before going freelance in 1998, since when my work has been published in nearly every English newspaper and many magazines. I was shortlisted for Writer of the Year in the 2018 PPA Independent Publisher Awards.