About

James lives in Dorset and is a member of The Society of Authors. He has spent most of his working life writing strategic content for organisations in the public and private sectors. His specialism is writing business narratives and speeches for a wide range of public figures. He has also written occasional articles on marketing and innovation in the business press and won the Guardian Management Essay Competition in 1999.

James is now focusing on fiction and poetry and has just completed his second novel 'Bayeux' and several short stories, one of which has been published in an anthology by Bridge House.

On this website James has assembled a selection of his published articles about reading and writing, using his favourite 300-word format which he believes is ideally suited to the brevity of our times.

The recently enjoyed: Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata   Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald   The Green Road, Anne Enright  The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall   Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry   Orlando, Virginia Woolf   The Outsider, Albert Camus   The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald   Lessons, Ian McEwan   On Beauty, Zadie Smith   Milkman, Anna Burns   Echo's Bones, Samuel Beckett   After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz   Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll   Beloved, Toni Morrison   Religio Medici & Urne Buriall, Sir Thomas Browne   Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo   Waterland, Graham Swift.