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Book Review: Police, Crime and 999 by John Donoghue

Coincidentally, and just in time for my birthday (It was my 21st birthday, just in case you were wondering but were too polite to ask) my very own signed copy of ‘Police, Crime and 999’ by John Donoghue arrived in the post this week. This is the sort of thing that happens in my life…

Interview in Ambulance Today

I was recently interviewed for Ambulance Today magazine – here is a direct link to the online PDF version of the magazine. I was interviewed by the editor, Declan Heneghan, about my career – starting from my job in the circus, which regular readers of this website will know all about! For those of you…

Katie the Paramedic Book Signing

I had a wonderful time at the book signing in Waterstone’s. My daughter Katie helped me to sign copies of the books and she seemed to thoroughly enjoy every minute of it. It was just fantastic to see so many people come along to buy the book – even a couple of my lovely young…

Did I mention… Book signing and reading TOMORROW!

As I write this, I am wondering if I shall sleep at all tonight. I am thinking about the book signing tomorrow at Waterstone’s and I’m getting more than a little anxious; what if no one turns up? I’ll be sat there on my own … Well hopefully I can rely on my daughter Katie,…

Two weeks to go!

It’s only two weeks to go now until September 12th and I am so excited already  – why? Because it will be the book signing for my second book “Katie the Paramedic” at Waterstones book store in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon. In case you didn’t know already, “Katie” worked in a circus before she…

Introducing… Katie the Paramedic

Alluded to in my extra post last Monday, here is a short teaser of my second book! This book is different to the last — it is a fiction book for children. This is the first page of the book … Katie had grown up in the circus. She travelled all around the world with…

My Second Book!

A quick teaser … Come back to the site this Friday for a sneak preview of my second book! The new book is totally different from the last and on Friday I will give you a quick peek at the first page. I have just approved the layout for the book, and fingers crossed it…

Cause and effect: The reasons why I wrote my first book

Questions, Questions I often get asked why I decided to write the 999 book. As is often the case with decisions that we make in life there was more than one factor that influenced me. I had attended a fatal stabbing of a young person that summer; the escalation of knife crime and senseless loss…