Fair Trade Heroin - Dedalus Books, 2022
The Taliban are poised to take control of Afghanistan. Foreign NGOs are recalling their workers, but Gwen has no intention of leaving. She’s just met a blue-eyed opium trafficker called Syed, and together they’ve devised a plan. Fifteen years later, in London, Gwen’s daughter Nadia has no interest in the Afghan father she never met, until her mother’s behaviour becomes even more erratic than usual.
A story of teenage angst, youthful idealism and mid-life doubt in two different worlds.
‘Sublime in its rawness, elegant in its outrage and compassionate in its fury. A damn good novel’
Ece Temelkuran, author of A Time of Mute Swans and Women who Blow on Knots
‘Brilliant, playful, timely and wise.’
Elanor Dymott, author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace and Slack-Tide
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Survivor - Story Cities, Arachne Press, 2019
The Last Tree - Words for the Wild, 2018
Listen to The Last Tree read by Simon Scardifield here
Full Powers - Stories for Homes 2, 2017
Horrible Sunshine - She Said He Said I Said (New Writing Scotland 35), Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2017
Butter Fish Parrot Fish - ‘Shoe Fly Baby,’ The Asham Award anthology, Bloomsbury, 2004
A Tasmanian Tiger in London - The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection, Polygon, 2002
In the Air on Paper Ghosts (Winner of the 2021 Paper Ghosts Story Contest)
The End of the Line on Fictive Dream
Aiming High on Litro
Shoe Box on The Pygmy Giant
Milk on Words for the Wild