I am a writer, editor, teacher and mentor with a wide-ranging portfolio of published work, and a life-long interest in the American West.
I also have an abiding love of the great outdoors, in Britain and anywhere else my feet take me.
Coming soon
When Steve Kaminski realised that the man who raised him wasn’t his father, he left the family’s Nebraska ranch in a rage. That was 45 years ago, and he’s never been back. Now he gets a call from his sister. She’s dying, and wants him to help her spend her remaining days in the house they once called home.
Academic Lyn Collier is on the crest of a wave. With a book deal in her valise, she’s heading to Nebraska to complete the work she started twenty years ago, a study of Mari Sandoz, daughter of a Sandhills pioneer and author of such books as Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn and the biography of her own father, Old Jules.
Stranded in a frontier-period hotel by a spring blizzard, these two characters find their past and present lives intertwined as they seek the truth about Steve’s family and Lyn’s literary heroine.
While exploring the dynamics of memory, conflict and reconciliation, A Sandhills Legacy also celebrates the unique landscape of the Nebraska Sandhills region, and the shadowy life of its most famous daughter.
Fifty years ago, inspired by American authors like Thoreau and Kerouac, British author Alan Wilkinson decided to drop out and write for a living.
“Writing about America, Alan Wilkinson ranks right up there with Alistair Cooke, John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens and Frederick Law Olmsted. A pure pleasure to read his story, all told in his delightfully British writing style.”
An account of my six-month stay, alone, in a tumbledown hunting lodge on a cattle ranch in remote Cherry County.
“As with the best travel writing, a visitor has held up a mirror to a place I love and shown it to us more clearly than we see it ourselves.”
and other discoveries on a bike-ride across Nebraska
Following the 100th Meridian from Mexico to Canada
Twin brothers Ray and Luke West grew up together in a monochrome post-war Britain dazzled by images from the American West.
“Compelling story & characters, a real prize winner”
Notices from me will appear here, roughly once a week.
