This weekend – 21st and 22nd February – the ‘Words in Watchet’ Literary Festival takes place and in particular the opportunity it represents for a number of Local Writers to display their books to visitors for discussion and hopefully to make sales at bargain prices.

You’ll find the Local Writers at the Phoenix Centre, 5, Harbour Road. close by the wonderful Watchet Harbour, long established in Bristol Channel trading, now providing fishing, tourest and Marina berths.

And years ago did Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner set sale from this port?

I will be bringing my novels and short story collection -PEBBLES – to Watchet;

REQUIEM FOR PRIVATE HUGHES

BIRCHLAND HALL

PUFFBALL PARADOX

and my latest novel, published in December 2025,

THE REGISTER OF JOE’S TREES,

an Anglo-American tale set over the years 1943 to 2003, connecting Bramlesham, Suffolk, UK with Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.