Where the sun shines

2009

I'll be talking about Sunshine at the famous Shakespeare & Co book shop in Paris (as seen in Before Sunset), on the evening of June 22 2009. With any luck a long-lost lover will surprise me there, sing me her songs, whisk me off my feet...

My wee biography / selection of John Keats in the Hesperus Brief Poetic Lives series is published on June 18 2009. Buy it here.

The paperback of Sunshine: Why we love the sun will be published on May 14 2009. Buy it here.

Announcing my new role as Thomson, the holiday people's, Dr Sunshine. Read all about it here.

2008

I'll be giving a talk at the Ways With Words Festival at the famous Dartington Hall in Devon on Saturday 19th July 2008.

A debate called 'The Sunshine Fix', around issues raised in my book will be held at the Science Museum's Dana Centre in London on 2nd July 2008. A blog posting on the event is found here.

I'll be appearing at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 28th May 2008. A podcast of a chat with some nice folk from the Guardian is found on their site; a posting on what I got up to that evening is found on my blog.

I'll be giving a talk about Sunshine at the Daphne Du Maurier Festival in Fowey in Cornwall, on June 8 2008. A posting on my search for the sun there is found on my blog.

A nice (albeit about 95% inaccurate) review in The Sunday Times on May 4th 2008. Read the review here

Come to the launch of Sunshine at the May Bank Holiday Beach Bonanza at The Broadway Bookshop, near London Fields on May 3rd 2008. Read all about what went on and what it achieved at my blog.

Sunshine is non-fiction book of the week in Metro newpaper. As the reviewer put it, it 'throws up some interesting things'. Yes, I thought, and so does a tramp. Read the review here

The Times publishes an excerpt from Sunshine. From the Health chapter on the history of tanning. Read the excerpt here