When I was asked by Mark Reynolds at Bookansita – respository of all things literary – to write a piece about why I dedicated my novel Attend to ‘the original Deborah Wybrow’, I jumped at the chance of explaining how a real life figure from the early nineteenth century was the inspiration for my central character, who is still alive […]
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Metro article
On 7 January an article I wrote about Deptford appeared in the Metro newspaper – in print and online. I was commissioned to write a piece about the tunnels under Deptford streets, and how they inspired the tunnels in my novel Attend. I confess to delight when I saw that I had a full page, and that the picture editor […]
Attend – publication
My debut novel, Attend, is now published in paperback (13 December) and ebook (15 November). You can buy it from all the usual outlets: Waterstones: https://bit.ly/2CbwQbx Hive: https://bit.ly/2EjVsAs Booksetc: https://bit.ly/2EsGqcj Blackwells: https://bit.ly/2SMgUBR Foyles: https://bit.ly/2AVFWZt Amazon: https://amzn.to/2QskwN1 The book has had some great praise already. Journalist Rosie Goldsmith said: ‘West Camel is the Dickens of Deptford, engaging us in a thrilling […]
Attend at the printing factory
Danny Emerson at CPI, Orenda Books’ printer, has made this fascinating and – for a debut author – kind of moving little film. It shows my novel, Attend, coming off the printing presses and going through the various cutting and finishing stages of the factory process before being wrapped and readied for delivery to bookshops. I’m so thankful to Danny for […]
Attend – my debut novel
So the news is out – my debut novel, Attend, will be published by Orenda Books in autumn 2018. As you’ll see from my other posts on this site, I work as an editor at Orenda Books, so it took a little bit of sneakiness on my part to get my novel into the submissions pile (under a different name). […]
A Bicycle in Amsterdam
I was a key contributor to literary content agency, Tibor Jones‘s team novel project, A Bicycle in Amsterdam. The novel was conceived by Tibor Jones Creative Director, Kevin Conroy Scott. A contemporary coming-of-age story A Bicycle in Amsterdam follows 18-year-old Edith to Amsterdam where she attempts to unravel the mysterious past of her father, enigmatic artist, Edward Frank. In collaboration with Kevin, a […]
Best European Fiction 2015
In 2014 I was editor of the 2015 issue of Best European Fiction, Dalkey Archive Press’s noteworthy annual anthology. It was a great pleasure to be set free on a huge pile of submissions from across Europe, and to select and compile what I thought were the best, most original and most interesting 33 stories. Starting out with no clear […]