The Book of Crows, a thrilling journey through Chinese history, is available in paperback now.
The Book of Crows, a thrilling journey through Chinese history, is available in paperback now.
Please excuse the slightly attention-grabbing headline, but here’s a link to a lovely profile of me written by one of my students for the Daily Q News website. It covers my inspirations, some of my adventures in China and the Middle East, the tricky process of transforming strange ideas into books, and of course a […]
Be honest. Time-travel can be something of a guilty pleasure. Guilty because so many well-meaning slogans tell us to ‘live in the present’ and to ‘seize the moment’, and yet there is something about slipping backwards and forwards in time that most of us cannot resist. We take comfort in childhood memories, in reliving perfect […]
Robert Sharp tagged me in the Writing Process Blog Tour, a carousel ride of writing answering a few short questions about their creative process. For Robert’s own great advice about swapping filler for fun, please check out his website. What am I working on? I’ve just finished the first draft of a novel – […]
‘Whole passages need to be read aloud to full savour their sensuality’
A wonderful review of The Book of Crows over at Bookmunch.