25th January 2024. In conversation with Prof Farah Mendlesohn about Acts of Love and War and her PhD thesis about Quaker aid in the Spanish Civil War which was my inspiration. At Friends House, London. Listen below.

January 2023

Such fun to be interviewed by Rachel McMillan in Toronto for Warwick’s Bookstore in San Diego - even if it did take place at midnight in London!

What is a book launch? It’s a celebration of possibility…

Join me for the full speeches and readings at the launch of ‘Acts of Love and War’ at Stanford’s bookshop in the heart of London’s Covent Garden on June 5th 2022:

Interview with Francis Sealey of Globalnet21 about the writing of Acts of Love and War:

UK publication day of Acts of Love and War June 9th 2022. Book launch in Stanford’s Travel, Covent Garden, London. What joy!

What influences formed the poet Maggie Butt and the novelist Maggie Brookes? The video below gives some surprising answers: Bunnikins Picnic Party, Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, the songs of Leonard Cohen, and much more.

The short video below answers three questions given to me by Dr Josie Barnard in a session for students of De Montfort University. Why did you become a writer? What’s the most surprising or hardest thing about being a writer? What excites you most about being a writer?

The gallery below shows screenshots from my launch party for The Prisoner’s Wife on the 16th April 2020 - sadly not at Daunt Books, due to Covid 19 lockdown but on Zoom with lovely friends from all over the world.

The video below is an interview by bestselling author Katie Fforde on my UK publication day of The Prisoner’s Wife, March 26th 2020, right at the start of the first Covid 19 lockdown.

Setting is crucially important to The Prisoner’s Wife, so how was it researched and captured?

The journey from being the poet Maggie Butt to the novelist Maggie Brookes in writing The Prisoner's Wife.

These ‘How I Write’ and ‘Why I Write’ buttons are links to audio files on the Royal Literary Fund website.