Thank you for visiting my website. I am a multi-award winning, bestselling writer, researcher, and tutor based in the North East of England with my curly-haired daughter and even curlier-haired dogs Brucie and Dave. Please click over to LATEST NEWS for information about my current writing projects.

I am Project Producer for County Durham on New Writing North’s Young Writers’ City and have taught Creative Writing at both Leeds and Newcastle University. I also work on the MA in Novel Writing at the University of Middlesex and also teach creative writing at Creative Writing Ink. Contact me for workshop or teaching enquiries.

For literary work, I am represented by Jo Unwin at JULA.

For script and screenwriting work, I am represented by Julia Mills at Berlin Associates. Please see contacts page for details.