I have given readings in libraries and prisons, for book groups and schools, at colleges and clubs. I also give workshops and teach creative writing. Contact for more details.

We launched Worms at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in a most excellent reading with Bruce Durie, polymath, novelist and editor of Dick Donovan, the original curmudgeonly Glasgow detective. I read at Thirsty Lunch in The Jazz Cafe, Edinburgh, where I was awed to meet esteemed Scottish novelist, Alasdair Gray, who signed my book in a childlike scrawl. There followed a tour south.

It's a great pleasure to hear specific reactions: people liked that bit where we find out about the Professor; one of you loves Mme Skelton; the cricket jokes; the Groucho Marx joke ... so keep those critiques coming. I can promise Ruth will be in the next one, but I can make no promises about who will die and who won't.Thanks to all of you who came to the readings, laughed in appropriate places and made them so enjoyable.


You can hear Noel and myself reading on Myspace

The tour culminated beautifully with a return to Edinburgh on 9th November, Edward VII's birthday and the first and last day of the book, when I was asked if I'd noticed the apocalyptic overtones of the date. 

I recently gave a workshop for urchins in the Surrey Heath Literary Festival and look forward to getting out and about when Maestro of the Assassins sees the light of day.