This weekend saw a welcome return to Brooklands, the world’s first purpose-built motor racing track, the location of so many attempts on the land-speed record and used by the pioneers of aviation. It is also one of the settings of my novel, I Stopped Time. Those Magnificant Men in their Flying Machines? Based on events at Brooklands. Minnie Driver’s episode of…
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The fabulous people at Smashwords have launched a new facility for authors to publish in-depth interviews. Here is mine. I’d love to know what you think. If there is anything else you would like to know about my writing journey, please drop me a line.  

Number One Indie Book Endorsement Site Gives Jane Davis’s Latest Novel the Thumbs Up September 2013 – I Stopped Time written by Jane Davis has met the high quality standards set by Compulsion Reads and earned that organization’s esteemed endorsement. The Compulsion Reads only endorses novels that possess the foundational components of a good story: well-developed characters, strong…
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Saturday’s small DIY job: clean grouting and replace mouldy seal around shower and bath. Not too taxing. Or so you’d be forgiven for thinking.      Friday – buy what I think is white anti-mould sealant and Grout Reviver in lovely hardware shop in Coulsdon to avoid having to go to Big Scary B & Q on a…
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Number One Indie Book Endorsement Site Gives Jane Davis’s Latest Novel the Thumbs Up August 2013 – These Fragile Things written by Jane Davis has met the high quality standards set by Compulsion Reads and earned that organization’s esteemed endorsement. The Compulsion Reads evaluation system is built upon assessing and endorsing those indie novels that…
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Having just arrived at the end of The Road, I realise I was so wrapped up in the devastating prose that there was something I failed to notice. Despite the occasional frustration that I was not entirely sure which ‘he’ Cormac McCarthy was writing about at any given time (especially when there was a change…
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I probably shouldn’t blog about this, but I feel compelled to. Yesterday I received a rejection letter from a literary agent and, for the first time, I can honestly say that I don’t feel remotely disheartened. It hasn’t thrown me off my stride. I didn’t reach for the bottle. It would appear that I have, as…
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2008: a woman walks the streets of Chicago. She might be anyone. Someone you or I would walk past and not pay the slightest attention to: plainly dressed; elderly. She slips on a patch of ice, falls and hits her head. Expected to make a full recovery, her condition deteriorates and she dies in April…
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As part of the build-up to Independent Booksellers’ Week (29th June – 6th July), Kate Mosse shared her passion for ‘old-fashioned bookshops’ with readers of the Metro yesterday. She mentioned the particular vulnerability of independent bookshops who are less able to compete on price. I recently visited Whitby Bookshop (two floors of a Georgian townhouse situated on a…
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