260 of you entered my July Shanville Monthly competition, to be in with a chance of winning a specially dedicated copy of Archibald Lox Volume 1: The Missing Princess. Using an online random number...

It was my 49th birthday earlier this month (I know -- I don't look it!!!!). To celebrate, I decided to run a competition with a specially dedicated and signed copy of Archibald Lox: The Missing...

My newest book, Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt, was reviewed by The Literary Connoissuer recently, who had a lot to say about it, including the following snippets:

"As someone who's been...

I wrote a short story called "Hagurosan" many years ago for the War Child anthology, "Kids' Night In". It used to be on my site, to read for free, but several years later, the publishers Barrington...

There was a lovely article about me in the Limerick Leader last week, in which I chat about how lockdown has affected my work and my family, and talk about the new Archibald Lox book that I...

As usual, the Irish summer has been more like what would be called autumn in most countries -- very grey, very wet, not overly cold but far from hot. But we've had the occasional sunny day here and...