(2018) Led Zeppelin: Song by Song (2018) All Around My Hat: The Steeleye Span Story (2019) Kate Bush: Song by Song (2021) 1970: A Year in Rock: The Year Rock Became Mainstream (2021) Decades: Mott the Hoople and Ian Hunter in the 1970s (2022) Decades: Free and Bad Company in the 1970s (2022) Decades: Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s (2023) Local history Devon Murders (2006) Devonshire's Own (2007) Cornish Murders (with Nicola Sly) (2007) Somerset Murders (with Nicola Sly) (2008) A Grim Almanac of Devon (2008) Cornwall's Own (2008) Plymouth: History and Guide (2009) West Country Murders (with Nicola Sly) (2009) Surrey Murders (2009) A Grim Almanac of Cornwall (2009) Durham Murders and Misdemeanours (2009) Berkshire Murders (2010) Ivybridge and South Brent Through Time (with Kim Van der Kiste) (2010) More Cornish Murders (with Nicola Sly) (2010) Dartmoor from Old Photographs (2010) More Somerset Murders (with Nicola Sly) (2011) A Grim Almanac of Hampshire (2011) Plymouth Book of Days (2011) More Devon Murders (2011) The Little Book of Devon (2011) The Little Book of Cornwall (2013) Plymouth: A City at War (2014) Hugh Shortland (2019) Fiction The Man on the Moor (2004) Olga and David (2014) Elmore Sounds (2015) Always There (2015) Drama, verse and miscellaneous The Big Royal Quiz Book (2014) The Big Music Quiz Book (2015) A Mere Passing Shadow (2015) The Man on the Moor (2015) - a dramatisation of his novel Dartmoor and other Places: Collected Poems 1975-2015 (2015) C.S. Forester’s Crime Noir (2018) South Brent and Beyond (2019) - paintings Sources International Writers and Authors Who's Who References 1954 births Living people People from Wendover 21st-century English novelists English male novelists English biographers English non-fiction writers People educated at Blundell's School 21st-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers Male biographers