Unknown Number Dials Into Festival Circuit
*UPDATE* Unknown Number has been added to the line-up of the North London Food & Film Fest in Finsbury Park, London on July 22. *UPDATE* My film Unknown Number begins its festival journey with a screening at Food & Film Fest in Leicester on July 1. It’s wonderful that, after a Covid-19 hiatus, the short […]
Mabel Wins Silvers
My non-fiction book-in-progress about silent movie actress Mabel Poulton has been awarded a prestigious Silvers Grant by a jury at the New York Review of Books. The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established by a bequest of the late Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books. […]
Larks Across The Pond
Impossible Causes was published in America today, on the tail of some cracking reviews and coverage. Ivy Pochodo chose Impossible Causes for inclusion in the New York Times round-up of thrillers by women. “There has never been a more exciting or challenging time for women who write and read thrillers and crime novels,” she begins, […]
What Larks for Impossible Causes
Impossible Causes was released on October 19 amid a flurry of events, podcast appearances and some cracking reviews. In a jampacked week to celebrate the book’s hardback launch, I sat on a panel at Off The Shelf Festival in Sheffield, alongside Twitter poet Brian Bilston and novelist Stephen May, before joining authors Kirsty Logan and […]
Mother Tongue: US Reviews Are In
This month saw the US publication of Mother Tongue and reviewers have been generous with their praise. Publisher’s Weekly selected it as a Book of the Week, calling it “a raw, compelling read”, while Russian Life especially bonded with the protagonist, saying, “Mayhew… has crafted a character in Darya that gleams with hope and grit.” […]
