‘Home and Away’ with Judith Heneghan and Julian Stannard, October Books, 29th May 2024
I’ll be discussing the pull of place in my novel BIRDEYE alongside poet Julian Stannard at October Books, Portswood, …
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Goldfinch Books, Alton, 22 May 2024
Birdeye’s first outing in front of an audience took place at Goldfinch Books on 22nd May in front of a warm and …
Publication of Birdeye, 15 May 2024
I’ll be celebrating the publication of BIRDEYE 6.30-8pm at Winchester’s oldest bookshop in College St, Winchester. …
Winchester Book Festival 19-21 April 2024
The Winchester Books Festival is a glorious three-day celebration of books and authors with events for all tastes, …
‘About a girl’
First published on Bookanista, April 2019 I’d never intended to call my novel Snegurochka. Titles are tricky, so …
Reading group questions
I’ve been asked by a couple of reading groups for questions about Snegurochka, so thought I’d post a few …
Life into fiction
I couldn’t have written my novel Snegurochka if I had not lived in Kiev for a while back in 1992-4. That’s not to …
Ordinary things
Writers use all kinds of props in their novels. Some use repeated phrases or images to foreshadow or echo or develop an …
The Tsar’s Village
I lived in Kyiv (Kiev, as we called it then) from 1993-4 in a block of flats that overlooked an area known as Tsarskoye …