Tuesday 9 November 2021

'Mrs Death Misses Death' selected for The People's Book Prize - Voting open now!



 






I have some very nice news today.

I just found out that Mrs Death Misses Death has been selected for The People's Book Prize for fiction. The prize is voted for by readers and book lovers, so it is extra special for me that MDMD has been longlisted and acknowledged in this way


You can have your vote now
 


Have a look on the website, there's a glorious list of books to choose from and I'm very honoured to be mentioned alongside these outstanding novels and writers. It has been quite a year. 


Thank you to everyone who has engaged in this work. 
Thank you to all who liked and shared, instagrammed and reviewed the book and audiobook and thanks to everyone that came to a zoom or a live reading of this work this year. 

The new soft-touch lapis-blue paperback is at the printers 
and will be published and launched, 20 January 2022

Please VOTE for Mrs Death Misses Death
Thank you Canongate. Thank you everyone!




Where YOU judge...

new and undiscovered literary works!









BAFTA award-winning 

Life & Rhymes 

Season 2 is here ... Woop!
 
Episode 1: Wednesday November 10th

Treat yourself to beautiful poetry, 
breathtaking spoken word, 
hopeful, powerful, soulful voices 
filling up your telly box. 

Tune in Sky Arts at 9pm
Hosted by the mighty 
Professor Benjamin Zephaniah

You can watch my contribution 
- an exclusive reading from Mrs Death Misses Death -
Episode 3: Wednesday November 24th







NEW book, coming soon

SUNBURNT SAINTS

PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 30th 2021
 
 An indispensable anthology of climate fiction featuring Billy O'Callaghan (My Coney Island Baby), Antonia Honeywell (The Ship), Carmen Marcus (How Saints Die), Michael Walters (The Complex), Elisabeth Ingram Wallace (winner of the Mogford Short Story Prize) and Salena Godden (Mrs Death Misses Death) and many, many more.  


'Some stories can change you forever. 
What you do with that change is up to you.'







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