EVENTS 2026

Read on to find out where I’ll be chatting with readers and authors this year.

BURFORD FESTIVAL, A GOOD READ
17th June, Baptist Chapel, 3.30pm

I am delighted to be taking part in A Good Read, a fundraising event for Burford Library which celebrates The National Year of Reading, where I will be joining esteemed writers Anne Youngson, author of Meet Me at the Museum, and Jasper Fforde, author of the Thursday Next series amongst many others.
We will be discussing our 3 book choices, from wildly different genres, including True Grit by Charles Portis, The Shooting Party by Isobel Colegate and the Booker Prize winner Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.
You can probably guess which of those choices was mine!
Tickets are only £10 which includes tea and cake and you can book tickets here.

Kim from the Madhatter Bookshop and I at my last Burford Library Talk about The Cure

BURFORD LIBRARY, DARK AND DANGEROUS
20th October, Burford Library, 7pm

Very excited to be appearing with fellow author Holly Hepburn at Burford Library where we will be quizzing each other on our different approaches to the thriller genre: Holly goes back in time to the era of Sherlock Holmes with cosy mysteries and I go forward in time to speculative future crimes!
I will be asking about Holly’s The Locked Room, the latest of her Baker Street Mysteries, and Holly will be asking questions about my speculative thriller, The Cure, and my forthcoming novel which will be out early 2027.
Booking via Burford library, details to be confirmed shortly.

TEIGNMOUTH BOOKFEST
“ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE”
7th November, The Pavilions, 5.30pm

Very excited to be appearing at the inaugural Teignmouth Bookfest on a panel with authors Simon McCleave, Louise Fein and Kirsty Dougal. Lucy Martin will be quizzing us about our novels and what drives us to write about strange places set in the past, present and future.

Booking details to follow soon!

LITERARY LEICESTER, CRIMES OF TOMORROW
18th March, Attenborough Arts Centre

I had so much fun appearing for the first time at Literary Leicester alongside Harry Whitehead and Michael Cordy for our Crimes of Tomorrow panel.
We discussed high-tech terrorism, environmental disasters and world-threatening medical cures amongst other things, with some fabulous questions from our chair, Dr Ben Parsons.
This festival sponsors ticket prices which means it is equally accessible to all readers and I really enjoyed engaging with such a lively and diverse audience.