Vol 4 of the short story books will be published on November 5th.

Over the years, I have travelled through much of the world and along the way I have met an amazing array of people: from a night watchman tending a coke brazier in Salford, who told me Winston Churchill had stolen the idea of the Sticky Bomb from him, to the great Tex-Mex accordion player, Flaco Jiminez; from the artist David Hockney, who told the most amazing dirty jokes, to the man who is now known as King Charles III, who didn’t tell me any jokes but told me I had nice legs.

The tales In Sahib Stories were inspired by places and people I met along the way.  ‘The Cowardly Barber’ is set in France and Germany and ‘A Sahib Story’, in Nepal. The others are set in the USA. Ireland, Pakistan and Nepal.

I do have three other people to thank for help with the stories:
I am indebted to Michael Vaughan of West Clare for the bones of ‘Moscow Riley’, and to a Navaho Indian called Maurice Chee for using his name for the guide in a story set in one of the Redstone Parks of America. Also, I hope that great folk singer and good man, the late Wizz Jones, won’t mind me including him in a story about busking in France.