I couldn’t be more delighted to finally announce my latest thriller, The Drowning Girls, is coming out August 17th, 2023, published by Michael Joseph Books. I’m so proud of it, and I think the cover
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New Title and Cover Reveal (UPDATED)!
So, the cover reveal and new title has had to move again – but only until tomorrow (fingers crossed). My new book, which is being released on August 19th, is finally going to be available
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The never-ending quest for the perfect notebook – chatting with the Stationery Freaks!
Had enormous fun gabbing to Helen Lisowski and Rob Lambert over on their Stationary Freaks podcast – how do you find the perfect colour of notebook? What is the correct use of fountain pens? Do
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Everything Is Lies – here it is…!
Drumroll please… So here’s the beautiful new cover to my next book, Everything Is Lies, which is out now in hardback and digital! I am so excited about this, I cannot tell you. It was
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Face to face with Jane Eyre
Had a lovely day – I had decided yesterday to pitch up at the Folio Prize Festival at the British Library. I was late and missed most of the first panel, so I lunched vaguely and turned up for the first
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Visiting Felbrigg Hall
One of the things that I did this year, while writing Dear Amy, was get out to visit some country houses. One of these was Felbrigg Hall. At the centre of the book is a
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Review: The Colour Black by Maia Walczak
This last week, now my own book has gone off, I need to catch up with those other diversions I’ve been forced to postpone. At the moment I’m reading six books and watching three movies and
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My first review – Mind Seed
So, rather wonderfully, I’ve been mentioned in a review for “Sex and the Single Hive Mind”. This is the SF/horror story published in the Mind Seed anthology, over at SF Crowsnest. For my part it’s
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That First Draft Feeling…
The first draft of the new Dear Amy went off to my agent yesterday. I am having a little breather to try and catch up with books, computer games, and TV box sets. Believe it or not,
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Yay! Rejoice! So, wonder of wonders, Sex and the Single Hive Mind, my black comedy from the Mind Seed anthology, is featured as the podcast over at Crime City Central! (NSFW, I’m afraid, due to
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