Hello! Thanks for dropping by my website. I am an author, tutor, editor and mentor based in Sussex, UK. To contact me, please use the social media links below.
About me
I am an acclaimed memoirist, novelist, editor and tutor. I was awarded my PhD in Creative Writing by Newcastle University in 2010. My thesis became my critically admired memoir, Are we home yet? (Jacaranda, 2020) which was shortlisted for the Jhalak and Portico prizes. I have followed this with two literary crime novels. The first, All Us Sinners (Sphere, 2024) was longlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and won the 2025 ILP John Creasey Dagger Dagger (the ‘Debut Dagger’) for best debut crime novel. It will be followed by a sequel in 2026.
A former journalist, I have written for a wide range of publications including The Guardian and The Big Issue and was a columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine for 5 years. My fiction and memoir can be found in Glimpse: (Peepal Tree Press, 2022). The Place for Me: stories about the Windrush generation (Scholastic, 2021) and Common People: an anthology of working-class memoir (Unbound, 2019).
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