Today, 1st August 2024 my first three novels are being republished by Penguin with lovely new covers to match in a green-ish way with Unsettled Ground and The Memory of Animals. And green happens to be my favourite colour. They were all designed by in-house designer Josie Stavely Taylor, but feature artworks by different artists on the covers.

I think they’re all gorgeous. Do you have a favourite?

My debut, Our Endless Numbered Days features a photograph by Caroliina Norontaus. It won the Desmond Elliot Prize for debut fiction, and is about Peggy, who in 1976 at age eight, is taken by her father to a remote European Forest and she isn’t seen again for another nine years.

Swimming Lessons has a painting by Paul Rouphail on the cover. It was shortlisted for the Encore Award for second novels. It’s about Ingrid, who write letters to her husband and hides them in the books he collects, before disappearing from a Dorset beach, and her daughter, Flora who wants to find out what happened to her mother.

Bitter Orange has a painting by Shaun Downey on the cover. The novel has recently been optioned for film / TV, and it’s about 39-year-old Francis who is commissioned to survey the follies in the gardens of an English country house in 1969. Once there she falls in love with a bohemian couple, with dire consequences.

If you decide to buy any of these, whether from your local independent bookshop (and thank you if you do) or online, you might have to specify that you’d like to receive the new cover.