About Me
I have recently graduated from the Creative Writing MA course at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Stories dominated my childhood. I loved reading stories, listening to stories on the radio, telling stories and trying to write them.
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Christmases Past
Christmases Past is my third novel and will be finished early in March. The novel opens in Cambridge in 2008 where Oliver Manning, a retired teacher, lives with his wife Lisa and their teenage daughter Natalie. Christmas is approaching and Oliver announces his …
Sinners
I wrote Sinners before joining the Creative Writing course but re-wrote it in the light of what I learnt on the course. It is a novel with two parallel themes: in 2002 Philip Hudson is living quietly in Devon, running a papershop and …
My Very Best Friend
I had written a draft of my second novel My Very Best Friend before the course but after discussing it in seminars with one of the Writers-in-Residence I made substantial changes to it. The novel opens in 1990 with the death of Simon …
Here We Sit Like Charlie Cattermole
My short novel for older children, Here We Sit like Charlie Cattermole was also written before the course but extended and revised after seminars with another of the Writers-in-Residence. It is set in 1945 and the protagonist, Paul Cartwright is eight years old. …
