Comfort Food and Comfort Reading –– the perfect companions at Cheltenham Alexander took to the stage in Cheltenham yesterday with fellow author and long-time friend, Anna Marshall. The sun shone outside as the audience took their seats in a converted 1930s cinema, now the charming Daffodil Restaurant. Anna has created a Scotland Street Cookbook exploring […]

Where is Alexander this week? On the high seas between New York City and Southampton in England on the stunning Cunard ship, ‘Queen Mary 2’. He is crossing the ocean as part of The Times/Cheltenham Festival on the Waves. He reports that all is going well on the voyage and he is delighted to spend […]

Last week, Alexander (or Sandy) enjoyed his first major October Tour in the UK since Covid restrictions lifted. He flew with his publicist, Jan Rutherford (that’s me) from Edinburgh down to Bristol and then a car over to Yeovil in Somerset for the first event of the week at the literary festival there. The trees […]