• A new chance for Wye

    Wye college seen from the churchyard
    It’s now eighteen months since an extraordinary campaign to save the rural area of Wye in Kent fought off a vile and deceitful attempt to build on an official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. I was proud to be a part of that campaign, and document it in my non-fiction [...]

    Posted on 03/03/08 | no comments | read on

  • Autumn on the way

    I’ve been in this business long enough to recognise that US English and American English can, at times, be very different languages. Though it’s not widely appreciated, many Americanisms that raise a wince in some quarters in the UK are actually older versions of the English language, not modernisms at all. But there are oddities [...]

    Posted on 22/09/07 | no comments | read on

  • Something rotten in the county of Kent

    I know we live in a global village but it’s still a little odd to be sitting through a media interview in Bangkok and have a curious journalist turn to you and ask, ‘So tell me about this environmental campaign in Kent.’
    The story of the great battle to save Wye, told in my book Saved, [...]

    Posted on 21/08/07 | no comments | read on

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