Aerth, a novella about a young man who travels from ice-bound planet Aerth to its dark twin, Urth, was long listed for the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award in 2019, and has appeared on competition shortlists and semi-finalist lists three times. It is joint winner of the Weatherglass Inaugural Novella Award and will be published in January 2025. You can pre-order Aerth from the publishers Weatherglass Books or from any bookshop.
My novel The Wilder Path is joint winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction, and will be published in May 2025. It explores personal and climate grief through the eyes of an older woman, but at its heart is love, for you only grieve what you love. Under various titles - titles are so tricky! - and also in various drafts, it was long listed in the Mslexia Novel Award (2015), was a Finalist in the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (2018), shortlisted in the Yeovil Novel Prize (2019), long listed in the Eludia Award (2020), and for the Pageturner Award in 2022. You can preorder The Wilder Path from the publishers Aurora Metro Books or from any bookshop.
In 2010 I finished my first novel, which followed three generations in a rapidly warming Britain in the 21st century. It was far too long, at 130,000 words, but it was also fast outpaced by events. We are now seeing the type of flooding, heat waves, droughts and the beginnings of migration that this book explored, much earlier than had been predicted by climate scientists, geologists and others. This book has not been published.
My first novella, I Married a Wife, is the story of a lively young woman married to a staid middle-aged man, who gets more than he bargained for. It's in the form of linked flash fictions, and was longlisted in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award 2018, and also longlisted in Ellipsiszine's Ellipsis Flash Collection Competition 2023.
My work-in-progress, another novel, is the story of a teenage boy drawn into an eco-fascist movement.
