My third novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps, is now out from Neem Tree Press.

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A historical crime fiction novel set in Victorian London’s gaslit theatre scene, where ghosts lurk in the shadows and murder takes centre stage.

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Gaslight. Ghosts. Murder.

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Read an extract from Nocturne with Gaslamps here.

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My next poetry collection, The Green Month, will be published by Faber and Faber in October 2025. It's a sequence of love and nature poems freely adapted from the work of the great medieval Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym.

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My latest book, Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City, is now out in paperback from Routledge. Depersonalization is a little-known but quite common condition which causes the world and / or the self to seem unreal. My study begins with a memoir of my experience of it in my 20s, which was closely linked to the beginning of my writing career. I go on to argue that it is a significant factor in many literary texts and offers some important lessons for writers. Read more about it here.

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