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 glass of water which reflects windows in this room where…
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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 glass of water which reflects windows in this room where…
During the week at Arvon, I became really aware of the inner critic. Many teenage students spoke honestly about the internal barriers we’re all up against as writers or creative people in general. Someone said in a tutorial – ‘The…
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. The landscape here is so familiar: as if I’ve been…
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 Pandora – the idea being that the city is not…
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 years and made this object, which I keep nearby when I’m…
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 to express something I don’t understand, and often find they…
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. She added me so I could add pictures as well.…
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 Foyles website at www.foyles.co.uk along with extracts from the book.…
EXCLUSIVE: A blog about the creative processes behind Snake Ropes at Book Oxygen: www.bookoxygen.com