My second book, Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country, a work of narrative non-fiction was published in hardback in the UK during October 2019 by William Collins, and subsequently released in the UK and US in paperback in October 2020. The book was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2020 for memoir and autobiography. I’m currently working on a new non-fiction book for William Collins, which is due out at some point in 2027 or 2028.

I have curated and edited two anthologies in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series of classic ghost stories and weird tales: All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow (October 2025) and Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (Aug 2024). I also contributed an introduction to Unquiet Slumbers, a folk horror story collection published by Nepenthe Press in late 2024. I have written an introduction to a new edition of Ithell Colquhoun’s classic Cornish travelogue The Living Stones (Pushkin Press, 2025) and have a chapter in Translating John Crome (UEA Press, 2025).

The Listeners, my first book, won the 2014 Rethink New Novels Prize. It’s a novel set in the heart of Norfolk at the start of WWII, and is an elegiac tale about grief, love and loss – and how we try to make sense of existence through stories and memories.

I’ve recently moved to just outside Edinburgh, having spent the previous two decades living in Norfolk. I have an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and was the recipient of an Escalator Award from the National Centre for Writing. I have taught Creative Non-fiction for the National Centre for Writing (in conjunction with UEA) since 2020, and delivered occasional writing masterclasses for Arvon and the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education. I also undertake occasional author mentoring and offer editorial feedback.

I was the Director of the Wymondham Words literature festival from 2013–18. The 2018 Festival’s highlights included Rebecca Stott, Mark Cocker, Louis de Bernieres, Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts. Philip Hoare, one of my favourite non-fiction writers appeared in 2016, while previous year’s events featured Sarah Perry, George Szirtes, Richard Mabey, Rose Tremain and Patrick Barkham among many others.

In the past I’ve worked for BirdLife International and the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, and have written numerous natural history and conservation-related articles for magazines and newspapers (as well as several on more esoteric subjects); I’ve been a keen birdwatcher and naturalist since my teens. I’ve also previously worked extensively in television and media production, and have undertaken a large amount of freelance editing and copywriting work.