Published work and literary awards
Literary Awards
Winner of the Athanatos Grand Prize for Novel Writing 2017
Winner of A Woman’s Write 2019 for an unpublished novel
Eyelands Book Awards 2019 prize for unpublished Historical Fiction
Long-listed for the Historical Novel Society award for First Novel
Winner of a Three Writer’s Resort Residency 2019
Winner of International Rubery Book Award
Further published works
Articles in Daily Telegraph, Country Life, Cotswold Life, Classic Sailor, Living, iBelieve, Word in Action,Westmorland Gazette, Lymington Times and other newspapers
‘Makorongo’s War’ the true story a screenplay commissioned by Dashwood Films
INSET series of 3 x 30 min episodes for BBC Education TV
‘Boys About Girls: Girls About Boys’ for BBC Schools TV
‘Just Mum, My Sister and Me’ for BBC Schools TV
‘The Way People Talk’ for BBC Schools TV
‘Crazes’ for the series ‘Tutorial Topics’ for BBC Schools TV
Edited ‘Through the Dragon’s Eye’ a Look and Read publication for BBC Books: a storybook with educational notes that sold over 200,000 copies
Produced ‘Through the Dragon’s Eye’ audiobook for BBC Books.
Research: ‘Bluebell’ the authorized biography of Margaret Kelly by George Perry for BBC Books
Research: ‘Dawn to Dusk: on Safari’ by Jonathan Scott for BBC Books
Picture Research: The illustrated ‘My Family and Other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell for Guild Publishing and Grafton Books
Visual contribution: ‘A-Z of Cumbria and The Lake District on Film’ by David Banning for Hayloft Publishing
Visual contribution: ‘The Dinghy Cruising Companion’ by Roger Barnes
Visual contribution: ‘Rembering Tenko’ ebook by Andy Priestner
Appearances on the cover of other books and DVDs:
