Books

The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan… my debut novel is an alternate history set in a Moorish version of 16th-century Mexico.

My third travel book is an exploration of four of Europe’s ‘unlikely landscapes’ in a time of climate change: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe’s only true desert in Spain; and the grassland steppes of Hungary.

Following the invisible pathways of four of Europe’s named winds – the Helm, the Bora, the Foehn and the Mistral – my second travel book explores the effects of these great invisible forces on landscapes, people and cultures.

In 1933, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul, a journey of 2,500 miles. Seventy-eight years later, I followed in his footsteps.

A journalist is invited to the fabled Dinner of Loss… my debut short story collection is a journey through the Anthropocene, climate chaos and the Sixth Extinction to whatever strange worlds might lie beyond.

Were London’s ring-necked parakeets released by Jimi Hendrix in 1968? Are they anything to do with climate change? This work of ‘gonzo ornithology’ explores the facts and urban legends surrounding London’s newest, brightest incomers.