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It was magic to do my first panel with Amanda Prowse at the Tea Leaves and Reads Book Festival September 2025 – we talked about our memoirs, Eighteen Seconds and Women Like Us.

I had a blast at The Book Party in Bristol 5th July 2025, catching up with author friends and meeting new readers…

It’s been a joy to see Light Out everywhere since its release 27th February, including in the window of indie store JEBooks and on the main table in Waterstones… (March 2025)

I’ve joined some wonderful book groups since Lights Out was released in paperback. I was invited to read with The Silent Book Group Hull, and to speak at Pudding and Pages in Gainsborough. Meeting readers is absolutely my favourite thing to do… (March/April 2025)

It was a real honour to interview Jacqueline Wilson at the Bronte Festival of Women’s Writing, September 2024.

Had the BEST time in London September 5th 2024, launching the Lights Out hardback! Signed a stack of copies at Goldsboro Books, and then chatted to Janice Hallett about the novel at Tragalgar Sqaure Waterstones.

Chatting to Rowan Coleman about End of Story, and Clare Mackintosh about her new memoir, at the Festival of Words. (March 2024.)

On 10th Febraury 2024, I did my first ever one-woman (though it became two-woman when my sister Grace did some readings) show at East Riding Theatre in Beverley. I was so nervous, I wanted to run away … but I stayed, and had a blast.

Ending 2023 on a high at Newcastle Noir. (December 2023)

My first time at Crime Central in Manchester – brilliant evening! November 2023.

Loved interviewing John Whaite and Joanna Cannon at East Riding Festival of Words, October 2023.

Had a blast at my first Capital Crime, September 2023, where I did my first BIG NAME panel.

Joining Tim Rideout for the lovely Newark Festival, July 2023, in its beautiful town hall.

On the infamous Beatles-inspired stage with Sarah Moorhead at Liverpool Watertones for a talk about both new books. (15th May 2023)

Very special evening at Wrecking Ball Press launching memoir, Eighteen Seconds. It was the first reunion of Uncle Edwin, all my siblings and myself since the bridge jump that inspired the book. Edwin interviewed me about it. Super emotional. (27th April 2023)

A truly magical night at Goldsboro Books, London, launching End of Story in a joint event with authors Lauren North and Charlotte Duckworth. (23rd March 2023)

My very first window display at The Rabbit Hole in Brigg. Can you tell I was excited? (18th March 2023)

I did my first Granite Noir panel in Aberdeen in February 2023. It was my FIRST time seeing End of Story in hardback and I got very emotional. An unforgettable day.

In October 2022 I attended an amazing party in London celebrating not only my new, upcoming book, End of Story, but also BA Paris’ and Emma Haughton’s new ones. Readers, reviewers and bloggers attended and we just drank wine, ate nibbles, and talked BOOKS.

A candid moment, signing books at Imagined Things in Harrogate with writer and journalist Paul Burston, July 2022.

A highlight of my career was hosting a Trauma Writing workshop at Newcastle Noir 2022 with Madeleine Black and Michael Malone. So empowering to inspire true stories from our attendees, and to see what they put on the page.

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Talking for the first time about my new memoir, Daffodils, at Newcastle City Library with Madeleine Black, 28th April 2022.

Telling Grandad Colin’s true life sea survival tale (from debut novel How to be Brave) at Hull Central Library during Maritime Week, 27th October 2021.

Talking about sensitive issues in fiction at Newcastle Noir 2021.

Reading from How to be Brave for Maritime Tales Week at the Maritime Museum in Hull.

This Is How We Are Human came out during the tailend of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 so the launch was in my house with Fiona and Sean, who inspired the story. But I got to see it in Waterstones…