Bingham’s How to Write a Novel gives advice to writers about planning, prose, characters, point of view, story, scenes and chapters and how to achieve perfection.

Salt Lane is an exciting and thought-provoking read, the first in William Shaw’s new series of crime thrillers set on the Kent coastline in the shadow of Dungeness. It uncovers an underworld of illegal migrants and dangerous gang masters and asks questions about those who are on the edges of society, through choice or by the necessities of poverty and politics: illegal migrant workers and their appalling experiences as modern-day slaves.

An ordinary summer barbeque in an affluent urban Australian setting turns into something else in this story about three couples, their lives, and the events of that fateful day. The narrative swings from past to future and observes the concerns shared by all humans about family and life in general. An uplifting story in the end.