I'm an award-winning author, journalist, book reviewer, teacher and freelance writer-editor. 


I grew up in cities in Canada, the United States and England. After studying History at Oxford University and Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, training as a maps specialist at a London auction house and pursuing journalistic work from Belgium to the Philippines, I began writing fiction for adults and young adults. This led to an AHRC studentship to complete a PhD in Creative Writing, which produced my second adult novel (and a thesis on imagined spaces in the postwar gothic novel). My third YA novel was published in September 2016. My first non-fiction title, about the value of history education, will be released in 2022.

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