Fair Trade Heroin - Dedalus Books, 2022

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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.

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‘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

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‘Brilliant, playful, timely and wise.’

Elanor Dymott, author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace and Slack-Tide

 

 

Shoe Box - Justo Custo magazine, ETC Projects, 2022

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Survivor - Story Cities, Arachne Press, 2019

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The Last Tree - Words for the Wild, 2018

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Listen to The Last Tree read by Simon Scardifield here

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Full Powers - Stories for Homes 2, 2017

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Horrible Sunshine - She Said He Said I Said (New Writing Scotland 35), Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2017

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Butter Fish Parrot Fish - ‘Shoe Fly Baby,’ The Asham Award anthology, Bloomsbury, 2004

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A Tasmanian Tiger in London - The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection, Polygon, 2002

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In the Air on Paper Ghosts (Winner of the 2021 Paper Ghosts Story Contest)

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The End of the Line on Fictive Dream

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Aiming High on Litro

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Shoe Box on The Pygmy Giant

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Milk on Words for the Wild