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In just eight short weeks THE HIGH TIDE MURDER (aka, Shell House 6) will be published 🐚 🎉 So here’s a little taste of it, to go with your afternoon cuppa … 🔪 ⛈️ ☕️

📸 The beaut finished copy, demanding an inch of space on my very fu

What, this? Oh, just a honeycomb sourdoughnut to go along with my notebook session 😜 This Monday deserves a little extra dressing as over at @thenovelry THE BIG WRITE is kicking off! Sixteen of us writing coaches, along with about a gazillion member

It’s a stormy Sunday morning in Bristol and I’m cosied up reading about shipwrecks (future Shell House ahoy … 😉). Coffee, plus lamplight, plus rain outside, plus a good book (plus the prospect of one’s own next book …

A poem for anyone currently experiencing an abruptly empty house ... ✨ My son started secondary school today and I can hardly believe it (I mean, wasn’t he three months old just yesterday? Or three years old, at least?). I miss him. I can&rsquo

Well, THIS is going in pride of place ... 🖼️ THANK YOU to my amazing publisher Thomas & Mercer - and the 100,000 plus readers who’ve bought THE SHELL HOUSE DETECTIVES since its release 💗🐚 Back in the spring the book hit this milestone, a

Behold, THE HIGH TIDE MURDER has landed! I’m so happy to have a beautiful finished copy in my hands, two months ahead of publication 💗🐚 In this 6th Shell House mystery, Cat and Jayden are enjoying a rare luxury weekend away at the High Tide H

I think @morrablibrary in Penzance must be one of the loveliest libraries in the world: an old mansion house set in subtropical gardens, just steps from the sea, staffed by the most passionate and welcoming book lovers 📚🌊🏝️ I launched The Shell Ho

To be fair, the writing was on the wall … 😂 And now I’m on the sofa with an ice pack, a wrenched hamstring and a bashed knee. Doing the splits off a skateboard? Not recommended, guys. Especially when you’re 46 and not the most &he

Breaking news: in the 7th Shell House Detectives book there’s a chapter that’s NOT SET IN CORNWALL 😱 I’ve wangled one of my favourite skate spots into the story … The Deaner in South Bristol 💗 🛹 And not just the skate park

I gave my writing hut a much-needed lick of paint 💚 I stayed with the same green colour it came with as I didn’t fancy the whole stripping/sanding malarkey ... Feeling very pleased with myself – and it! 😍 Let’s not talk about the

Thank you SO much to the brilliant @fearnecotton for giving a shout-out to The Thousand Lights Hotel in the latest @happyplaceofficial podcast, a holiday reading special with @djsaracox ☀️ 📚 This made me GLOW ✨

The Thousand Lights Hotel was a Happ

Celebrated handing in my 2nd draft by booking my autumn solo retreat … 🥳 Oh my goodness I can already taste the serenity, the solitude (no offence, fam), and the writing inspiration ✍️💗My diary is now lit by a beacon ✨Of all the ‘proce

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