News Archive

  • September

    • The narrators for the audiobook of The Witching Hour have been announced, with Olivia Poulet who starred in The Musketeers, confirmed to narrate 'A Midnight Visitor'.
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    August

    • Charity Wakefield, who played Marianne Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility (2008), confirmed to narrate the audiobook of The Twelve Days of Christmas. ​​

  • November

    • The Shadow Key selected as one of Apple Books Best Books of 2024.
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    September

    • Announced as a contributor to the follow-up of short story collection The Winter Spirits. Read more HERE.

    April

    • The Shadow Key reaches Number 17 on the Top 20 Bestseller List in the hardback charts.

    January

    • Award-winning Welsh actor Richard Harrington confirmed to narrate the audiobook of The Shadow Key. ​

  • November

    • Harvill Secker to publish three more titles, including a short story collection. Read more HERE.

    September

    • The Shadow Key to be released in the US with Harper Perennial in Hardback, Paperback and Audiobook.


    August

    • The narrators for the audiobook of The Winter Spirits have been announced, with Sian Clifford of Fleabag fame confirmed to narrate 'Widow’s Walk'.
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    July

    • Pandora shortlisted for the 2023 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. Read more HERE.
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    June

    • Pandora longlisted for the 2023 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. Read more HERE.


    May

    • Second novel The Shadow Key to be published by Harvill Secker in Spring 2024. Read more HERE.


    March

    • Pandora officially sells over 50,000 copies across all UK platforms.

    January

    • Pandora reaches Number 20 on theTop 20Bestseller List in the paperback charts.

  • September

    • Pandora chosen as one of Waterstones' Best Historical Fiction Novels of 2022. Read more and discover other titles on the list HERE.​


    July

    • Shortlisted for Gladstone's Library Writers in Residence 2023 cohort.


    March

    • Announced as a contributor to the follow-up of bestselling short story collection The Haunting Season. Read more HERE.

    • Pandora to be released in the US with Harper Perennial in Paperback and Audiobook.


    February

    • Debut novel Pandora soars straight to the Number 1 spot on The Sunday Times Top 20 Bestseller List in the hardback charts. Read more HERE.


    January

    • Debut novel Pandora listed as The Sunday Times Historical Book of the Month.​

  •  ​​​October

    • Olivia Vinall, who played the lead role in The Woman in White (2018), confirmed to narrate the audiobook of Pandora. 

    February

    • Debut novel Pandora to be published by Harvill Secker in January 2022, with other territories to follow. Read more HERE.

  • September

    • Shortlisted for the 2020 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize with debut novel Pandora. Read more HERE.


    August

    June

    • ​Longlisted for the 2020 Bath Novel Award with debut novel Pandora. Read more HERE.


    May

    • ​Longlisted for the 2020 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize with debut novel Pandora. Read more HERE.


    March

    • ​Shortlisted and awarded Highly Commended for the 2020 HWA & Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award with first novel Infelice. Read more HERE.


    February

    • ​Longlisted for the 2020 HWA & Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award with first novel Infelice. Read more HERE.

  • April

    • Accepted onto Writing West Midlands' prestigious Room 204 programme for their 2019/2020 cohort. Read more HERE.