The Spark in Marks

I enjoyed many years working for various branches of Marks and Spencer. West Ealing, then the daddy of them all, Marble Arch in the warehouse but it all started off working in the posh Kensington High Street. Ken H St was good fun because the various trickle of celebs who regularly dropped in. Headed up by…

Piece in the Mail in full

It is a good experience getting stuff published in newspapers. The Mail asked me to write a feature after seeing my earlier piece in The Independent. A good experience because it is the oxygen of publicity all epublishers need – or because it is just something new and exciting anyway? Probably a mixture of both. Anyway…

the stress of buying a novel…

Here’s a very familiar situation – You’re in the airport and you are committed to buying a book. This might be the only book you will read this year, so it is an important decision. But there is so much choice and the 2 for 1 offers are a distraction also. A wall of books…