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A Desperate Business: The Murder of Muriel McKay

7 Nov 20227 Nov 2022
The disappearance of Muriel McKay remains for me one of the most frightening and perplexing mysteries in British criminal history, a tragedy which began with a case of mistaken identity…
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“Silver Bells and Cockleshells” – Remembering Craigherbs Cottage

29 Jun 202219 Feb 2023
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells, and pretty maids all in a row." I was recently asked by a creative writing student…
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“Wealth I Seek Not, Hope Nor Love…” Remembering Peter the Painter

15 Mar 202119 Apr 2021
“Sadly lost again in a longing for the past” (9) A timely cryptic-crossword clue this week made me realise not only that “nostalgia” is an apt anagram of “lost again”,…
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High Spirits and Low Morale

29 Nov 201826 Jan 2023
This is a story not only about a forgotten story, but about a forgotten tragedy. It is a two-part tale. Bear with me. In the ever-changing sea of crime series, one…
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Familiar Thoughts of School and Unfamiliar Schools of Thought

20 Nov 201829 Oct 2020
“Oh, Mr Hemming, what’s happening to the world? What’s this filth that’s… flooding… everything… ” In the late Sixties and early Seventies, it was examination time for the British public…
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The Milkman Also Rings Twice

18 Jul 201729 Oct 2020
“I might kill myself today. No, I’ll go shoplifting instead... then I’ll kill myself. Are you listening to me? Does this cry from the heart meaning nothing to you? I…
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Savage Ms-Siah

5 Jun 201729 Oct 2020
“We’ll only ever change things by going on with what we believe.” In the early 2000s, I was researching a planned history of the BBC's Play for Today drama strand…
television drama

Impish Hillmans

28 Apr 201729 Oct 2020
“I remember this thing I saw on telly once about a couple that had this old car they didn’t want, and they kept trying to get rid of it. They…
True Crime

Love Will Tear Us Apart

31 Mar 201731 Mar 2017
For my book, A Dangerous Place, I spent a lot of time talking to officers from Surrey CID, and through that research also discovered a remarkable website detailing the history…
television drama

A Dreadful And Despairing History

7 Mar 201729 Oct 2020
Few, if any, remember a late-night series of half-hour plays under the cumbersome umbrella title Conceptions of Murder, broadcast at various points throughout 1970 in several ITV regions, with no…

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"So many faded old names, broken toys, shattered joys, lost little pieces of truth, had their day, had their say... " (Pieces of Me, Linda Hoyle)

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  • Familiar Thoughts of School and Unfamiliar Schools of Thought

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  • “Wealth I Seek Not, Hope Nor Love…” Remembering Peter the Painter 15 Mar 2021
  • High Spirits and Low Morale 29 Nov 2018
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