Everything About You – launch!
Launch day!
Everything About You finally hit the shelves today, and signings took place at Goldboro books in London and Forbidden Planet London and Bristol.

Launch day!
Everything About You finally hit the shelves today, and signings took place at Goldboro books in London and Forbidden Planet London and Bristol.

It’s been a strange year – one of those authors go through sometimes – in which novel-writing has been slow or tricky, and instead I’ve done what I term the ‘marginalia’ of a writer’s life – other things that around the margins of writing actual books. So this year, I’ve been a mentor on the…
At last, the beautiful cover of my new book is out in the world! The designer, Ellen Rockwell of Orbit UK, has done an amazing job capturing the surreal, heightened reality of Arlo’s life. The snake is reminiscent of what he grapples with, his powerful, fabulous ego, and the scales seem to disintegrate almost as…
I’m sure many writers have found that during lockdown they are pulled two ways.
This book has been a long time in the making and I’m delighted to announce it will be launched at Bristol’s lively and radical indie bookstore, Bookhaus.
PRESS RELEASE | 18 May 2017 Little, Brown Book Group imprint Orbit is delighted to announce the acquisition of Smartface, an exceptional debut by Bristol-based author Heather Child. Senior commissioning editor Jenni Hill acquired world rights in two crossover novels from Julie Crisp of the Julie Crisp Literary Agency, and Smartface will be published…
I’m delighted to share this news that THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LOVE has been signed by award-winning, climate-positive publisher SRL. The book is about a shy tunnel engineer whose best friend is trapped on a reality television show, based in a shiny new country where popularity is prized above all else.