I’m an English writer and novelist of science fiction and the fantastical, represented by the Zeno Agency (zenoagency.com).

For as long as I can remember I’ve been making up stories, from the ridiculous to the epic. Although my work has always contained elements of the fantastical, I came to writing science fiction almost by accident, and I feel as though it’s given me an entire new world to explore. I love reading and writing fiction which creates new worlds and I’m inspired by writers who bring the extraordinary to the ordinary.

My debut novel OSIRIS is a dystopian story set in a far future ocean metropolis whose inhabitants believe they live on the last city on earth. OSIRIS will be published by Night Shade Books in June 2012, is the first in a trilogy which will explore a world altered by climate change.

My first published story, The Complex, appeared in the January/February 2012 edition of Interzone magazine (IZ238).

When not writing, I can usually be found attending to the whims of my two delinquent cats, attempting to grow things in a London garden, or practising aerial circus skills.

Writing influences and loves

There are far too many to list, and so many writers I’ve yet to discover, but the following writers and novels always inspire me:

David Mitchell’s Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas; Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin; Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights trilogy; Ursula le Guin’s The Dispossessed; Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus; Christopher Priest’s The Prestige, Alastair Reynolds’ House of Suns; Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods; Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Trilogy; Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Blood Meridian; Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From The Goon Squad.