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Delighted my flash story – ‘What Remains’ – is featured in the latest New Flash Fiction Review. Read here

My fifth novel – ‘Towards the Vanishing Point’ – is finally finished and I’m delighted to say will be published by Pintail Press early in 2020. The story is set in the north of England and spans several decades beginning in 1938 with the threat of a second world war already in the air. It’s […]

I am looking forward to signing copies of ‘Too Many Heroes’ from 10:00 this morning in the Stroud Branch of WHSmiths.   Met some lovely people at my book signing. Many thanks to everyone who bought a book

Here is my latest interview for Corinium Radio where Rona and I discuss the new novel Too Many Heroes (then with the working title Deceiving the Eye.) The programme includes John reading from the prologue and Chapter One. Listen here

‘Too Many Heroes’ Jan’s upcoming novel is set in England in the early 1950s. A faced paced thriller of courage, trauma, intrigue and love, it is due for release in early autumn 2019.

Just heard my short story ‘Where Cicadas Sing‘ has made the shortlist (of 6) for the Henshaw Short Story Prize.