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I’ve been a writer for nearly 30 years, with 70+ titles published. Until about 2020, I wrote children’s and educational books under my own name, Simon Cheshire. These days, I write speculative and historical fiction under the pen name Richard Gadz. My books are available at the online shops listed below, via any good bookseller worldwide, or direct from the publisher. For news and updates please follow me on:


Here’s Bookmarks, a series of podcasts in which I interview fellow writers of all kinds, and we talk about their books, about writing in general, or whatever other subject we happen to drift onto. All episodes are also on my blog page, on YouTube and Spotify, and are broadcast as part of the Spoken Word show on KTCRfm, the community radio station in my home town Keynsham.

Bookmarks #8 children’s writer Sylvia Bishop Bookmarks

A chat about the Bristol Writing Collective, Sylvia's new book "On Silver Tides" and the joys of performning improv comedy.
  1. Bookmarks #8 children’s writer Sylvia Bishop
  2. Bookmarks #7 crime writer Nikki Copleston
  3. Bookmarks #6 historian Dr Nicola Tallis
  4. Bookmarks #5 novelist/ playwright/ actor Robin Hawdon
  5. Bookmarks #4 non-fiction writer Francesca Ramsay
  6. Bookmarks #3 crime writer Brian Price
  7. Bookmarks #2 horror writer Tom Carlisle

The trailer for my latest novel, a crime/ horror mashup The Burn Street Haunting
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