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Kindle editions discounted for Christmas

As a Christmas gift to my readers, the Kindle editions of my two full-length novels, The Only Genuine Jones and The Atholl Expedition, have been reduced in price from £1.99 to 98p. This offer will run for ten days until New Year’s Eve. I’m afraid I don’

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The Atholl Expedition listed in top outdoor literature of 2014

It’s that time again when the outdoor industry looks back at the year past and reflects on the highs and lows. For the first time in my career I have been fortunate enough to feature in this great reckoning, not once but three times. First I was nominated (and

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Christmas paperback stock update

It’s that time of year again! Paperback copies of my novels have been flying off the virtual shelves over the last couple of weeks, and I have received several queries about stock levels, so I thought I’d make an official update. As of this morning, The Atholl Expedition

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The Atholl Expedition featured in Mountain Pro Magazine

An extract from my second novel, The Atholl Expedition, has been published in this month’s issue of Mountain Pro Magazine. It’s a double page feature and the illustration of Forbes taking measurements at the Braeriach bergschrund looks particularly striking. There’s plenty of other good stuff in the

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The Atholl Expedition shortlisted for Outdoor Book of the Year Award 2014 — Please Vote!

Nominations have now closed for The Great Outdoors Awards 2014, and I’m delighted to announce that The Atholl Expedition made the short list for the Outdoor Book of the Year Award. There are nine categories in the awards, and the books section is number 7. Other categories include Independent

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The Atholl Expedition reviewed in ScotWays newsletter

The Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society (ScotWays) is an organisation that fights for public access to the Scottish landscape — not just the mountains, but the lowlands as well. It can trace its origins back to 1845 but one of its first real tests came in 1847 during the

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#TheAthollExpedition reviewed by TGO magazine

The Atholl Expedition has been reviewed by outdoor expert, backpacker and author Chris Townsend in the May 2014 issue of The Great Outdoors (TGO) magazine. TGO is one of the top selling outdoor publications in the UK and they printed a short review of my first novel almost exactly a

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#TheAthollExpedition reviewed by Trail magazine

I had wondered what was causing today’s huge spike in visitors to my website! Trail, one of the UK’s most widely-read outdoor and mountaineering magazines, has published a short review of The Atholl Expedition in this month’s issue. Here is the text in full: “The year is

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Win a signed copy of #TheAthollExpedition on Twitter

I have a few copies of The Atholl Expedition going spare and thought I would run a competition to give one away to a worthy reader! The competition will run for seven days, at the end of which a winner will be picked at random. Here are the rules: 1.

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The Atholl Expedition in paperback – now taking orders

It’s finally here! I have been posting pre-orders for signed copies of The Atholl Expedition this week. The first box of twenty copies arrived a few days ago and it didn’t last long; I am now out of stock and have ordered a second batch. There is a

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