Book Research

The Devil’s Bible: The Legend of the Codex Gigas

The Devil’s Bible, properly known as the Codex Gigas or ‘Giant Book’, is the largest surviving medieval manuscript in the world. Standing almost a metre tall and weighing…

Psychology Of Religion: Freud Museum, Hampstead, London

While researching my thriller, Ark of Blood, I read Sigmund Freud’s final book, Moses and Monotheism, written in London in the final year of his life after being…

Interview With Joanna Penn About Thriller Novel Prophecy By Natalie Wright

As part of the launch for my latest thriller Crypt of Bone [at the time of this interview, the book was published as Prophecy], YA author Natalie Wright…

Writing Religion, Scene Setting In Amazing Locations And More

For the launch of Prophecy, I did an interview on GhostWriterDad, a great blog for writers. Here are 2 of the 8 questions. Click here to read the…

Ancient Cities, Sacred Sites: Ossuaries And Catacombs

Setting is incredibly important in my writing. I often start with setting and then write a scene to fit the place, rather than the other way around. I’m…

5 Reasons Writers Love The London Library

In the last month I have been working at the London Library a couple of days a week and it has made all the difference to my new…

Ancient Book: Carl Jung’s Red Book

Note: Pentecost, the first ARKANE thriller discussed below, has since been rewritten and retitled as Stone of Fire. The Red Book scene is still in the story. As…

Ancient Cities: Oxford, England.

We all have special places that mean the world to us. Oxford is my spiritual home and the place I return to again and again. I went to…