East of Elveden

I’m delighted to announce that Flint Country has won the Ellingworth Prize 2026 presented by Kett’s Books in Wymondham, Norfolk.

Trinity Buoy Wharf, down by the River Thames on the Leamouth peninsula in Poplar, is a place where the past is deeply layered.

I had been keen to revisit Avebury for a while.

Esfahan nasf-e jahan est (‘Isfahan is half the world’) ‘… and rank Isfahan among those rarer places, like Athens and Rome, which are the common refreshment of humanity.’

I am currently involved in an art exhibition at St Margaret’s Gallery, St Benedicts St, Norwich.

LATEST NEWS I’m delighted to announce that Flint Country has won the the General Non-Fiction category for the 2025 East Anglian Book Awards.

I’m delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025.

Kashgar, Xinjiang, China 2001 I have made a few updates to East of Elveden recently so you might wish to take a look.

We were driving home from North Wales, and it is a long way to East Anglia from there.

My latest book Flint Country was published a couple of weeks ago.