It’s felt like a bit of an age since I actually wrote it, but Thin Ice is now released into the wild!

The latest Bill Kemp thriller continues the legacy of Desmond Bagley, borrowing his hero for a new, original adventure set in the Cold War-era territory of Iron Curtain conspiracies and espiona...read more

I was meant to be writing a book. Instead I wrote a play. The play won a competition.

Entitled The Seagull Has Landed, it’s an affectionate tribute to Blackpool and was submitted to the Power Plays festival at The Old Electric Theatre in the town, where it won a staged professional reading.

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Well, when I invited you lovely people to let me know #whereareyoureadingyours I never expected to find Outback among royalty. Turns out Bill Kemp has ended up in the library of the Queen Mary II, courtesy of very happy reader Geri.   Having enjoyed it on a cruise which, appropriately e...read more

It won't be news if you follow me on social media (what do you mean, where can you find me? Have a look at the bottom of this page!) but there's a new Bill Kemp novel on the way.

After the searing heat of the Australian outback, Bill is now deposited in the freezing temperatures of the Austrian A...read more

Marking the centenary of Desmond Bagley, the bestselling thriller writer whose legacy I am lucky enough to be continuing, the paperback edition of Outback is published in the UK on October 26.

If you missed the hardback/ebook/audiobook release earlier this year, Outback is the ‘Desmond Bagley...read more

It's always great to see one of your babies heading out into the world, and this weekend marks the start of a UK and Ireland tour for my new play MacHamLear.

Produced by outdoor theatre specialists Heartbreak Productions, it's an utterly disrespectful mash-up of three of Shakespeare's greatest ...read more

Publication day has arrived! After months of anticipation (by me, at least), my novel Outback is published by HarperCollins.

It's an original sequel to Desmond Bagley's Domino Island, which I worked on in 2019 to bring to publication, and features the same protagonist Bill Kemp – rather delig...read more

Sales of Domino Island, the ‘lost’ Desmond Bagley novel, went so well that publishers HarperCollins issued a paperback release in May 2020. Its cover features the same style as the other 16 Bagley books and brings DI fully into the fold as a ‘proper’ Bagley novel....read more

Marking the centenary of Desmond Bagley’s birth (see Domino Island, below), publishers HarperCollins have commissioned an original new novel featuring the same protagonist, Bill Kemp. Entitled Outback, it's due for UK publication in hardback, ebook and audiobook on May 11, 2023, with foreign an...read more

HarperCollins publishes a 'lost’ Desmond Bagley novel, Domino Island, more than 35 years after the author’s death.

Why is this significant? Well, because I’ve had the honour and pleasure of taking DB’s original first draft from 1972 and (perhaps rather presumptuously) delivering it as a final m...read more

Not one, but TWO whole producers are in talks to bring their versions of Tess: The Musical to the stage.

But wait, I hear you cry, what is Tess: The Musical? Really? Where have you been all these years? With music by Michael Blore, lyrics by yours truly, it’s a fully sung-through adaptation o...read more