“What drew you to write about the moors?” an interviewer asked me recently. We were discussing my latest book, The Coffin Path, a 17th century ghost story set in West Yorkshire and conversation had turned, inevitably, to that...
Read MoreMy debut novel, The Witchfinder’s Sister, is set in Essex. Which, it’s fair to say, is not The North. The month the book came out I had four separate events promoting the book in Essex; four events with four (fantastic) local...
Read MoreThere’s something about Waterstones Deansgate in Manchester. It’s the welcoming, colourful displays and the passion with which they celebrate local talent and history alongside bestsellers that makes it feel like a local...
Read MoreBad historical fiction is rarely hard to spot. Bosoms will heave, troths will be pledged and feisty heroines will deplore the lot of women centuries before the invention of feminism. Good historical fiction requires all the...
Read MorePublication day. I woke up and ran downstairs to the laptop. There it was, available to order. Actually out and published. I danced around the kitchen. I danced through the morning, to the beat of whining children and...
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