NEWSFLASH - ZELAH HAS BEEN LONGLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES 2009 PRIZE..........!!!

I'm a children's author whose first book 'Zelah Green: Queen of Clean'  is to be published by Egmont UK in January 2009, with the sequel 'Zelah Green: Dating Queen'  sometime soon after. I'm also a freelance book reviewer for Scotland On Sunday, the Herald and Telegraph newspapers and the author of three books on Virginia Woolf and I co-edit 'The Virginia Woolf Bulletin', the magazine of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. I work as a reader for a literary consultancy.

I'm represented by Peter Buckman at the Ampersand Agency and live near Chichester harbour. 

 

Influences etc:

Books and poetry: Philip Larkin, Dorothy Parker, Sarah Waters, Cormac McCarthy, the Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Isabel Allende, Mr Gum (Andy Stanton), Adam Mars-Jones, Patrick Gale, Helen Dunmore.

Fave Eras: the 1940's, the 1900's, the 1890's.

Art: Kahlo, Perry, Dali, Nash, Hepworth, Wallis.

Music: Mozart, Marillion (mark 2), Brahms, Chopin, Green Day, Eddie Thompson, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Dave McKenna.

Telly: Coronation Street (best scriptwriting ever).

Films: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Age of Innocence, The Pianist.