My spooky, dark literary novel, Bone Rites, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction is published by award-winning independent publisher, Aurora Metro Books.
I'm a UK born writer who has been living and writing in Sydney, Australia since 2000.
I write a monthly opinion column, The Unreliable Guide, for the Sydney print magazine, The Beast https://thebeast.com.au/
I like writing, reading, and whispering ideas to my two cats, Freddie & Floyd.
For the first fifteen years after I left university, I put in the hard slog. I had an ordinary job, a predictable salary and a hefty mortgage. I lived near London. Culture and pollution oozed out of every pore of the magnificent capital in equal measure, and I loved the challenges, the pace and the variety of that chapter of my life.
But then I had a family, and my entire perspective transformed. I moved to the East Coast of Australia and went from scraping ice off my windscreen to wiping sweat from my face at Christmas time. To start with, I was completely disorientated, but now I’m at home, writing books in paradise.
That sea change inspired my first novel, ‘Universal Values’.
The process of deciding to move, and the complete metamorphosis i
