Pale Winter Light
                 
                A collection of fourteen short stories, published by Propolis in Autumn 2025
                 
                Winter. East Anglia. Natural and Unnatural.
                 
                ‘He couldn’t stop himself looking up at the ceiling, where a spill of light 
                
                
               
              
                 
                Elephant
                 
                In a house balanced on an eroding cliff in North Norfolk, local recluse Manny gets a surprise visit from his estranged sister, Jessie, whom he’s not seen for a year. She’s wildly unpredictable, 
                
                
               
              
                 
                New York to California, a journey across the East of England, looking for the not quite visible
                 
                My first narrative non-fiction book, published by Propolis. 
                Winner of the prize for non-fiction at the East Anglian Book Awards, 2020.
                 
                New York to California is a personal journey across the East 
                
                
               
              
                
                The Collector of Lost Things
                published by Little Brown
                 
                ‘I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line. This was a place if there ever was a place, where you could 
                
                
               
              
                
                The Wake
                 
                A field, a perfect morning, a family destroyed in a single moment.
                 
                Every night, before he cuts the engine and lets the boat drift, Guy writes the diary of the man he should have been - of a husband 
                
                
               
              
                
                Salt
                 
                In the watery half-land of Norfolk’s saltmarshes, Pip attempts to piece together the fragments of his mysterious family history.  What happened to the man who was found buried in the mud, after he 
                
                
               
              
              
                
                Sea Change (the US title for The Wake)
                 
                ‘Gripping... buoyant’
                TIME OUT NEW YORK
                 
                ‘Sensitive... poignant... seek (Sea Change) out; it won’t lead
                 you astray’
                THE WASHINGTON POST
                 
                ‘A moving portrait of a father who, unable to save what he