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Getting my rights back
Posted on June 26, 2025
This week, Oneworld signed an agreement to return my publishing rights to me. It’s a major milestone in my writing journey, but also bittersweet. In 2017, I signed with my …
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June 2025 – A Month of Crime
Posted on June 10, 2025
Update: Unfortunately the Crossing The Tees Festival event with Jess Kidd due to take place on Friday 13th June at Acklam Library has been cancelled. June is National Crime Reading …
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It’s easy to point out what’s wrong – it takes ingenuity to fix it
Posted on June 3, 2025
I was interviewed by Hannah Dolman at the University of Cambridge for the Alumni Magazine of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. You can read the full text (with …
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Terry Deary
Posted on May 18, 2025
I’m so excited to have been invited to interview Terry Deary (of Horrible Histories fame) when he visits Back of Beyond Books. If you’ll be anywhere near Sedgefield on 24th …
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Phosphate Rocks – do engineers read fiction?
Posted on May 1, 2025
May 2025 sees the start of a 52-part serialisation of my 3rd novel – Phosphate Rocks: A Death in Ten Objects. The Chemical Engineer, (TCE), the monthly magazine of the …
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Audiobook Loosing Control
Posted on May 1, 2025
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Losing Control and I’m absolutely delighted with what voice actors Melanie Crawley and Mike Hayley have done with the story – they bring it …
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Visiting Cambridge University 6&7 May 2025
Posted on April 23, 2025
I’m delighted to be visiting my old university to give a couple of talks in early May, always a lovely time to be in Cambridge The first talk is as …
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Review of Losing Control
Posted on April 3, 2025
The Chemical Engineer (TCE) published a glowing review of Losing Control in the April 2025 issue, pairing the book review with recent TV shows (Toxic Town, Last Breath) and a …
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Losing Control Audiobook
Posted on March 28, 2025
I’m delighted to share the news that WF Howes have acquired the UK and Commonwealth audio rights to Losing Control through my wonderful agent Juliet Mushens. Voiced by the fabulous …
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Phosphate Rocks to be serialised
Posted on March 24, 2025
Exciting news. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) have acquired the rights to serialise my novel about a fertiliser factory in their member magazine (TCE) and website. Phosphate Rocks: A Death …
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TV Interview – Is it Safe?
Posted on March 18, 2025
I was interviewed as part of a DW News report about the incineration of toxic waste from the former Union carbide factory in Bhopal. Macleod is my maiden and professional …
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Authors on Location and Mysteries to Die For
Posted on February 6, 2025
This week, The Book Trail – now celebrating ten years of mapping the locations in works of fiction, a sort of literary travel agency – ran a #Authors on Location …
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