My academic background is in conceptual art and my professional career is as a novelist who has published three books. (Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton 2012-17) This page is about the …Read More
Category: Pictures, Words & Tangles
The Kitschies Awards
So proud that my third novel, City of Circles, has been nominated for the red tentacle (novel) category for the Kitschies Awards. Previous winners have included Margaret Atwood, and the …Read More
To wake in a dark night and keep dreaming
In praise of kindness: words are dark weapons but kindness is a shining thing like the edges of the moon when blurred through clouds and it’s kindness, not its opposite, …Read More
The Ticks (story in progress)
This is my happy ever after. My husband and I own a farm between fir trees at the edge of an evergreen forest. The forest grows in straight lines which …Read More
Yellow Petals: The natural beauty of New Zealand
I can make new things become old friends just by looking at them for long enough. There’s the black-green feathers of a Tui as it drinks desperate nectar – its …Read More
Some days you just shouldn’t get out of bed
Some days you just shouldn’t get out of bed. Some days you just have to. Solution 1: take the bed with you wherever you go and stay in it. Solution …Read More
Fragile
I’ve agreed to this curse of seven years of silence. And until those years are over, my six brothers remain swans. I don’t have to seal up my lips with …Read More
Travelling on
Using a dodgy phone camera, I’ve been photographing objects and moments during the last year or so of my travels. There’s an image of set of keys to a rented …Read More
Shedding Skin
I just watched a snake shed his skin. He peeled himself out of it or it off himself with muscular movements the old skin lying in the sand shapes of …Read More
The Jugglers
For C.Y. Juggler I To throw these plates in perfect balance as if lighter than the weight of thoughts, I must believe I’ve taken them from some dream of …Read More