Hello and welcome to my website

My first novel, The Memory Cage, was published by Scholastic in Jan 2011. It was shortlisted for the 2011 Waterstone's Book Prize, and is currently nominated for the 2012 UKLA Book Awards, the Inspiration Book Awards and the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal.

It's about a boy called Alex whose grandad keeps forgetting things. Desperate to help him remember, Alex starts collecting old photographs. But as he digs into the past, he stumbles across secrets buried since the Second World War…

To read the first chapter of The Memory Cage click HERE!

Look around this site to find out more about me and my writing.

OUT SOON! The Messenger Bird. Reserve a copy now.
My second book, The Messenger Bird, can now be pre-ordered.

 

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