About

I have written some books and my author page can be found here.

These ones – Julian’s Journeys, Travel Tales from Exotic Places like Salford, and Ten Traveller’s Tales – are three collections of travel stories, part memoir, part travelogue, and part revelation about the effect travel has on me, because going to different places does change you.

I write stories about the baggage man at Tehran airport who helped me through customs in double-quick time and all for one dollar. I tell the story of the nun at the bus stop in Catania, Sicily, who was incredibly knowledgeable about the local delicacy, mortadella. I describe how I became slowly inebriated in Bulgaria, when one of the locals offered me the opportunity to sample his homemade slivovitz in his garden – all the while we wrote down football results on a piece of paper. I report a conversation I had with a super-smooth carpet-seller in Istanbul, who was always encouraging me to visit his shop.

The pieces are about people, landscapes, architecture, food, museums, and me. When the reader reads the stories I hope they can see themselves where I am, doing what I am doing – ultimately I want people to feel that they can do what I have done and, hopefully, some of them will. If this happens, then I will have succeeded.

40 Humourous British Traditions. Britain has many well documented, yet strange traditions such as Cheese Rolling, Bog-snorkelling, Bonfire Night, and Haxey Hood. This book describes 40 more traditions in a similar vein, all of which haven’t started yet.

All the stories are individual and distinct and so can be read independently if necessary; a book for the busy individual who perhaps has five or ten minutes to spare a few times a day.

Sports the Olympics Forgot describes 40 sports that never achieved the popularity they should have. These sports include DVD Golf, Mongol Vegetable Chopping, and Dockey, a combination of Darts and Hockey.

The Goat Parva Murders and The Manton Rempville Murders are murder/mystery stories based in fictional villages in England. They feature Detective Inspector Knowles and his sidekick Detective Sergeant Rod Barnes.

My background is that I was born in England and grew up there, but moved to Canada at the age of 41 twelve years ago. I go back to Britain every year to visit family and friends and can’t help but observe the quirks and idiosyncrasies of life there from an outsider’s point-of-view. It makes me appreciate how much Britain has and these stories are told as a result of this feeling.

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