For his travel-writing, Keeble won the 1995 "Travel Writer of the Year" award at the Travelex Awards, and his book Independence Day – A voyage around America with a broken heart was one of the New York Times' top six travel books of the year 2000.
This was followed by The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), in 1999.
In television, Keeble continued the collaboration and wrote for series such as Inspector George Gently, Silent Witness[2] and co-created the crime drama Wild Bill.
[3] Appleton and Keeble adapted Robert van Gulik’s ‘Judge Dee’ novels for a new Chinese-British television series.
[4] As literary influences, Keeble states Anne Tyler, Michael Ondaatje, John Irving, Nick Hornby and Charles M. Schulz.