ABOUT & CONTACT

Hello and thanks for finding me here. 

I'm a history graduate, and in my final year I concentrated on the Early Medieval period. 

Here's my current writing 'CV':

Fiction

Novels:

To Be A Queen, Alvar the Kingmaker, Cometh the Hour, The Sins of the Father

(Awards: HNS Book of the Year longlist, IndieBRAG Medallions, Chill Readers & Discovering Diamonds Books of the Month, IAN Finalist.)

Anthologies:

Fate 2025

Exile 2023

Betrayal  2020

1066 Turned Upside Down 2016

Nonfiction

Full length:

Murder in Anglo-Saxon England: Justice, Wergild, Revenge

(Amberley Books Feb 2025)

Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Pen & Sword 2020)

Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Amberley Books 2018)

Anthologies:

Kings & Queens: 1200 Years of English Monarchs, Ed. Iain Dale (Hodder & Stoughton 2023)

Sexuality and its Impact on History (Pen & Sword 2018)

Prizes:

Shortlist Exeter Short Story Prize 2021

Winner Dorothy Dunnett/HWA Short Story Competition 2017

Shortlist Scribble Mag Nonfiction Competition 2016

Finalist in Tom Howard Essay Prize 2015

Runner-up Mail on Sunday Novel Writing Competition 2012, 2013

Winner New Writing Magazine Prose Competition 2012

Magazine Articles: 

Writing Magazine 2022

Cumbria Magazine 2016 

This England Magazine 2015

Grace Magazine 2010

Events:

Panel Member Ask Historians Conference 2021: “All Women Have a Past: Reconstructing Women in the Historical Imagination.”

Speaker Tamworth Literary Festival 2018: “Reconstructing Early Women’s Voices in Fiction.”

Speaker Aethelfest Tamworth 2023: "Lady Aethelflaed: Warrior? Queen?" and "Prominent Women of Mercia"

Speaker Tamworth Athelstan 1100 2024: "King Offa's 'Murderous' Wife and Daughter"

Speaker Tamworth Athelstan 1100 2025: "Murder in Mercia"

Memberships:

Elected Fellow of Royal Historical Society 

Society of Authors  

Historical Writers’ Association

Posts:

Senior Reviewer at Discovering Diamonds 2020-2022

First Round Judge for HWA/Dorothy Dunnett Story Competition 2018-2021

First Round Judge for Historical Novel Society Story Competition 2018

EHFA (English Historical Fiction Authors) Blog Editor 2016-2020

Judge - HWA Crown Nonfiction Award 2024

Chair - HWA Crown Nonfiction Award 2025

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