Moving Mountains   The light casts mountains to blue shadows which only fall because they’re afraid of heights. There’s a shine in the trails of aeroplanes. It’s caught in a …Read More

The notes of possibility… a dream of coming back.   Watching the sky change from light grey clouds to the dark of night in the space of a half hour. …Read More

When writing Cooking with Bones, and designing a futuristic city, I took a lot of time over getting the name right. I eventually chose Paradon as it’s an anagram of …Read More

I found a small bridal shoe in an alleyway a few years ago. It looked as if Cinderella had run away. Remembering her ugly sisters, I collected toenail clippings for …Read More

I like the condensed nature of poems: they’re great for capturing a theme, a moment, an emotion. Many poems I write, I’d never show anyone. I use them as sketches …Read More

The lovely Francine Toon at Sceptre set this pinterest page up for Cooking with Bones. It was amazing to see how many details she remembered from having read the book. …Read More

I was interviewed by Foyles on the origins of my debut novel Snake Ropes. The full interview and a short story can be read on the author page on the …Read More

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