Archived News
NOV 2019
British Council Vietnam: creative writing and oral history workshop in Ho Chi Minh City
AUG 2019
Two travel writing workshops at The National Centre for Writing, Norwich
MAY 2019
Will be chairing the event Pastoral Symphony at The Charleston Festival, 3pm Monday 27th May 2019
APRIL 2019
Excited to be on a research trip to Vietnam and involved in a series of events including Ho Chi Minh City University.
APRIL 2019
Pleased to have a short story in the forthcoming anthology
'Still Worlds Turning' by No Alibi Press (Belfast, June 2019)
MARCH 2019 I am running a series of events at The Museum of English and Rural Life/University of Reading as part of my Fellowship: Songwritin with Martin Simpson, Birds, Gulls and nature writing with Tim Dee.
OCTOBER 2018
I'm part of the Orlando90 celebrations at The Charleston Trust, reading along with other writers at a 9 hour read-athon of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
OCTOBER 2018
I've been invited to give a talk about the writing life to Year 9s at Bedes School in Sussex.
SEPTEMBER 2018
I am chairing this event at The Charleston Trust with Alexandra Harris and Tim Dee.
JULY 2018
My review of Jennifer Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars is published in The New York Times.
JUNE 2018
I will be spending a week in Greece teaching fiction on the Creative Writing Summer School in Athens.
MAY 2018
It's the yaer of the Museums. I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded the MERL Fellowship at the Museum of English Rural Life 2018-19. I will be writing about my local patch, Findon in Sussex, sheep and landscape.
APRIL 2018
Wonderful news - I will be working with Visual Artist Helen Barff on a project with Worthing Museum, UK, exploring the narratives behind clothes from the Museum Archives, funded by Arts Council England.
JANUARY 2018
Travel piece by me in The Telegraph: Looking for the wild. The Rise of the Solo Traveller
DECEMBER 2017
My review of S. A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass in the New York Times
JUNE 2017
My review of Charif Majdalani's Moving the Palace in the New York Times
MAY 2017
I will be part of PALFEST, travelling to Ramallah, Jerusalem, Haifa, Hebron and Bethlehem doing an event at Al Quds University in the West Bank (Jerusalem).
MARCH 2017
I will be taking part in the Landscape and Literature Day at the Weald and Downland in Sussex on the 9t
FEBRUARY 2017
Paperback of The Photographer's Wife is out in the States!
JANUARY 2017
Very pleased to announce that I am going to be a writer in residence at the University of Malta for the month of Feb 2017
NOVEMBER 2016
I will be at the Write Idea Festival in Tower Hamlets on Sat 12th November.
OCTOBER 2016
Happy news that The Photographer's Wife is coming out in Chinese with Zhejiang Publishers in Beijing!
JULY 2016
Happy to have started by residency at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, West Sussex. Here is my first blog post.
June 2016
A piece about travelling solo in Stella Magazine, The Telegraph and a piece about family photograph albums in the Guardian. Also: I was commissioned to write about the contemporary art scene in Beijing, China and a short story inspired by a stay at Raffles Hotel Beijing.
Events coming up:
Speaking on July 3rd at Modernism-on-Sea.
May 2016
If you like travel and writing and combining the two, join me for this course in Brighton at New Writing South starts end of May Happy to be on the NetGalley list of top 10 books for May. Pleased to be included on this list of Longreads.
***The Photographer's Wife UPCOMING EVENTS***
Kent Festival of Writing, Key Note Speech,
Sat 16th April, Whitstable. Info here.
Brighton Festival 'Home' workshops, Friday
20th May
Steyning Book Shop, 23rd May
Worthing WoW event with Joanna Walsh 5th June
Much Ado Books, Alfriston 11th June
Modernism on Sea Celebration, University of
Bournemouth, Sun 3rd July
March 2016
I'm so pleased to announce that I will be a writer-in-residence at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex for a year, thanks to a grant from Arts Council England. More info soon. Enter here for a free givewaway of The Photographer's Wife - only available for a short time!
February 2016
Events coming up:
Kent Festival of Writing, Sat 16th April
Brighton Festival 'Home' workshops, Friday
20th May
Steyning Book Shop, 23rd May
Worthing WoW event with Joanna Walsh 5th June
Much Ado About Books, Alfriston 11th June
Modernism on Sea Celebration, University of
Bournemouth, Sun 3rd July
Landscape and Literature Day at the Weald and
Downland Open Air Museum, West Sussex date tbc
A wonderful review in The New York Times!
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S WIFE IS OUT IN THE USA!!!
A review in Publishers Weekly.
A starred review in Kirkus.
This essay in LitHub on writing and travelling.
December 2015
The first couple of reviews for The Photographer's
Wife have come in from the US. This starred review from Kirkus, and this one from Publishers Weekly. Both super positive!
November 2015
This month I was invited to be a writer in residence in Beijing. It was magical. What a city, what a country. I will be taking part in an event with Iain Sinclair and Lee Rourke at the All Saints Centre
Lewes, Sussex on December 8th. We will be talking about 'The South'.
October 2015
Cheltenham Festival proof party