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Bitter Orange Giveaway on Goodreads

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Goodreads is running a Giveaway for 100 ebooks of Bitter Orange for U.S. readers!

Follow this link and click on the Enter button: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/424883-bitter-orange-a-novel

The Giveaway closes on 4th February.

In 1969 Frances Jellico arrives at Lyntons, a dilapidated English country house, to survey the follies in the garden. There, she meets Cara and Peter, and when she is in her bathroom in the attics of the house she finds a hole in her bathroom floor and she cannot resist spying on her new friends in their bathroom below. Frances has a story to tell, as does Cara, but you can’t believe everything either woman says.

Instagram Giveaway for a UK proof of Hunger and Thirst

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Over on Instagram, I’m running a Giveaway for a signed UK proof of my next novel, Hunger and Thirst, which will be published in May.

Hunger and Thirst is about Ursula, a reclusive sculptor, who in 1987 when she is 16 meets wild-child, Sue. Sue dares Ursula to kill someone and when she actually does, Ursula is haunted for the rest of her life.

The Giveaway closes at midnight 17th January 2026.

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25% Off Hunger & Thirst Pre-orders at Waterstones

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Pre-order Hunger and Thirst from Waterstones today and get 25% off! Offer ends 17th October. Just enter OCTOBER25 at checkout. And you’ll get a sneaky preview of the UK cover, which I’m not officially revealing yet.

The book will land on your doormat in early May 2026, and you won’t pay until it’s dispatched. (And if for some reason the price goes down before then, you’ll pay the lower price.)

Pre-orders help books and authors enormously The more pre-orders, the more likely book shops are to stock Hunger & Thirst, and the more they stock, the more readers will see it and hopefully buy it. I’m hugely grateful for every pre-order.

Hunger and Thirst is about Ursula, who at sixteen accepts a dare from her best friend to kill someone and when she does, she is haunted – literally haunted – for the rest of her life.

Pre-order Hunger and Thirst from Waterstones.

US Cover of Hunger and Thirst, Revealed!

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I’m delighted to reveal the US cover of Hunger and Thirst which will be published by Tin House, an imprint of Zando, on 2nd June 2026. I love it so much: the boldness of the yellow font, the sculpture (the main character in the book is a sculptor), and the flies… I won’t tell you how the flies come into it; you’ll have to read it find out.

Yesterday, CrimeReads revealed the cover on their website, together with a piece I wrote about why this is the perfect cover – designed by Beth Steidle – for Hunger and Thirst.

They also published an excerpt from the beginning of the book, so if you’d like a taster before you pre-order, you can read it here.

And if you’re in the US here’s a list of places that you can pre-order it from, or of course you local independent bookstore.

For those in the UK and Canada, you’ll have to wait a little longer to see these covers. But let me know what you think of this one!

About the book
1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and—delightfully— some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at The Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can’t resist this hodgepodge family. But as Sue’s behavior and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry—for food—and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging, carries out her friend’s terrible dare. And, for this, Ursula finds herself literally haunted.

Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentary-maker, Emma Zahini who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula’s whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without.

Pre-order Hunger and Thirst in the US.

Meet Andrev Walden: Author Event at Mr B’s Emporium, Bath

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Calling all readers in Bath and beyond! On 7th October I’ll be at Mr B’s Emporium to interview Andrev Walden, the author of Bloody Awful In Different Ways. I loved this book.

Buy a ticket for the event.

This is what I had to say about it when I first read it:

Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden is so good. It’s already on my top ten reads of the year and I can’t imagine it getting bumped. Starting in 1983 seven-year-old Andrev has seven ‘dads’ in seven years, beginning with the one he thought was his biological father who turns out not to be, we meet all of the men that Andrev’s mother dates or moves in with, or move in with her. None of them seem to want Andrev or his half-siblings around. There is domestic violence but there is also humour, and my goodness Andrev Walden (an acclaimed Swedish journalist) can write. Andrev has told me on Instagram that even though it’s called a novel, it’s ‘a very true story’, and it certainly reads like one. Translated from Swedish by Ian Giles. Darkly funny, and comically tragic. An absolute gem. I loved it. Highly recommended.

This is what Mr B’s Emporium has to say:

Already a phenomenal international bestseller with a film adaptation in the works, Bloody Awful in Different Ways won the the 2023 August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award. This vivid and joyful novel follows a young boy who has seven fathers in seven years, and has already been loved by our bookseller Sue, who describes it as ‘poignant, funny and bloody brilliant in every way.’

And a bit about Andrev:

Andrev Walden is an acclaimed Swedish journalist and columnist who has worked for Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. In 2017, he became the first columnist to be nominated for the Swedish Grand Prize for journalism, praised for his ability to ‘find the everyday drama in the big questions’, and to make us ‘laugh and see the world, the family and ourselves in a new and slightly wiser light’. He lives in Stockholm.

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Hope to see you in Bath!

Join Our Oxford Novel Writing Retreat—Limited Places!

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I’m very excited to let you know that fellow author and Oxford University creative writing tutor, Lucy Atkins and I are running a one-day novel writing retreat in Oxford on 13th November 2025. We’ll be teaching character, setting, inspiration, plot and lots more. It’s going to be intense, informative and fun. Places are very limited, so book yours quickly. Click here to find out more.

Join Me for Writing Sessions in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall

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Currently, for the rest of 2025 I’ve got three Creative Writing teaching sessions booked in. They are all in person, so apologies for all those who live a bit further than the South / South West of England. Keep a look out for an online course in the near future.

27th June: Bournemouth. I’m teaching a two and a half hour session on plot as part of Bournemouth Writing Sanctuary. The event last three days and includes teaching from other writers including Judith Heneghan, writing time, lunch and dinner, and networking with other writers. More information here.

4th July: Penzance. I’m teaching a two-hour workshop on the Art of Editing Your Own Work. More information here. This is part of the Penzance Literary Festival, where I’m also being interviewed about my writing. Book for this event.

24th November to 29th November: I’m back at Arvon, but this time in Totleigh Barton, Devon, teaching Editing Fiction and Non-fiction together with Chatto & Windus (Penguin) Editor, Kaiya Shang. Find out more.

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Pre-Order ‘Unquiet Guests’: Spooky Stories Await

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I’m delighted that I have a short ghost story included in this spooky anthology, Unquiet Guests, and alongside such amazing authors as Chuck Palahniuk, Kirsty Logan, Irenosen Okojie, and Alison Moore. The book will be published by Dead Ink Books at the end of October 2025. Dan Coxon is the editor and commissioned us each to write a story about a haunted house.

I started my story some time ago about two sisters who arrive at their father’s house, after he has died. One of the sisters has the key and is waiting for the other. About a month after I’d written the first draft, devastatingly my own father died. Two days later I realised I was outside his place with the key, waiting for my sister to arrive…

The book is available to pre-order now, in the UK (I’m not sure whether it will be published in other countries), either via Dead Ink Books, or Waterstones, and it will drop through your letterbox at the end of October.

Happy reading.

Hunger and Thirst: My New Novel Coming in February 2026

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Delighted, excited and terrified… My sixth novel, Hunger and Thirst will be published by Fig Tree (Penguin) in February 2026 in the UK and Commonwealth, Tin House in the US, and Bond Street Books (Doubleday) in Canada.

“Ursula, a renowned, reclusive sculptor find the past she has been running from catching up with her when a documentary-maker begins to dig into the unsolved disappearance of someone Ursula knew back in the 1980s. Set in and around a local art school and steeped in the atmosphere of the horror films Ursula watches, it’s a compelling and chilling story of loneliness and possession, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing and of how far a person will go to belong.”

It’s been great fun rewatching all my favourite horror films from the 1970s and 80s, and drawing on my memories from that time, when I was an art student studying sculpture and living in what was essentially a squat. Ghost stories and horror novels were the first books I read as a teenager, and it’s been interesting (and difficult) to see whether I can write something a little bit scary.