February 20, 2019
INTERMISSION
Cue random picture of the fruit bowl. I’ve gone quiet. I’m moving. I left Bristol in January, now staying with friends near Bath and hoping to move into a new house very soon. (And am I writing? Well …
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Welcome
Hello!
I write stories . . . and if you’ve found your way here, I guess you must read stories.
Writing is always a challenge – and I think reading is too. It is an act of creation, to be a reader. And your creation is utterly original. A story invites us both to take a journey.
So come on, let’s go . . .
NEWS & EVENTS
November 21, 2018
THE XY IS HERE . . .
I am delighted to announce that The XY (UK title: Who Runs the World?) was published in the US by Sourcebooks on 6th November – and it has got an amazing cover: What’s intriguing is that I’ve h …
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Who Runs the World?
Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, the female population has grieved, pulled together and moved on, and life really is pretty good - if you’re a girl. It’s not so great if you’re a boy, but fourteen-year-old River wouldn’t know that. Until she met Mason, she thought they were basically extinct.
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The Rain
One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris is having her first proper snog with Caspar McCloud in a hot tub, and the next she’s being bundled inside the house, dripping wet, cold and in her underwear. Not cool.
As she and Caspar shiver in the kitchen, it starts to rain. They turn on the radio to hear panicked voices – ‘It’s in the rain . . . it’s in the rain . . . '
The Storm
THE END OF THE WORLD WAS JUST THE BEGINNING . . .
In this sequel to The Rain Ruby's fight for survival continues in a world where water is deadly.
"I'll tell you a weird thing about apocalypses - a thing I didn't even know until I was in one: they seem pretty bad, don't they?
Well, take it from me: they can always get worse . . ."
