What if I could be you… Could be the start of a creepy love song – see below – but it’s actually the idea behind my just-published novel, Crawly. In a small country hospital, a boy lies in a coma, his mute sister by his side. He will never wake. Inside the catastrophe that is…

At Random is a collection of short poems about love, lust, loss and life. Here’s Plain Girls, a poem about what life can be like for those of us who aren’t born hot.

Wouldn’t she? Sometimes, it’s not that simple. Babies born in the brothels of sixth century Byzantium don’t live long. So when Anastasia’s sworn enemy Macedonia tells her that the daughter she bore when she was thirteeen somehow survived, and is living at the court of the Vandal King Geilimir in north Africa – she doesn’t…

Incoming calls only. My latest book, A Portrait Under Water, is a new take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. It’s a story of death, grief, and the unbreakable bonds of passionate love. Eurydice’s husband Orpheus, a well-known musician, disappears from a party boat in Sydney Harbour on his thirtieth birthday. Three days later…