News just in, March 11th 2013 - 'Tabitha Grey' receives her fifth shortlisting of the year, this time for the Staffordshire Young Teen Book Awards 2013!
January 2013 - I am delighted to have signed with Ella Kahn at Diamond Kahn & Woods literary agency for my new novel, 'The Earth is Singing' and all future novels.
The Haunting of Tabitha Grey has just been shortlisted for four awards (see the Tabitha page for details). Click on the link to buy a copy of my brand new ghost story!Let me know whether you liked it...did it scare you? Was it creepy enough? Did you like the twist at the end? What do YOU think makes a good ghost story?
The Haunting of Tabitha Grey - Amazon
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- Newsflash! The sequel to 'The Taming of Lilah May', 'Lilah May's Manic Days' has now been published in the UK and can be ordered via amazon at
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I'm a children's author whose first book 'Zelah Green: Queen of Clean' is published by Egmont UK and won the Manchester Children's Book Awards 2010. It was also shortlisted for the 2010 Young Minds, the 2009 Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the NASEN awards and the 2010 Bolton Children's Book Awards and longlisted for the Branford Boase 2010. The sequel 'Zelah Green: One More Little Problem' came out shortly afterwards as did a new series, 'The Taming of Lilah May' (Frances Lincoln,2012). My first ghost story'The Haunting of Tabitha Grey', ghost story for 11+ was published April 2012 and has been shortlisted for: The Portsmouth Brilliant Book Awards 2013, the Worcestershire Teen Book Awards 2013, The Yorkshire Coast Awards 2013,the Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Awards 2013 and the Staffordshire Young Teen Book Awards 2013.
I'm also a freelance book reviewer and the author of three books on Virginia Woolf.
I'm represented by Ella Kahn of Diamond Kahn & Woods (see 'contacts and links' section for details) and I live near Chichester harbour.