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My writing focuses on the relationship between twentieth-century art and literature, principally now on the Bloomsbury group.

My novel Talland House (distributed by Simon & Schuster) was shortlisted for the Impress Prize, Fresher Fiction Prize (as Who Killed Mrs. Ramsay?) Retreat West Prize and Eyelands Prize and longlisted by the Historical Writers Association. 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction (post 1900s). 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List. Winner Women’s Fiction International Impact Book Awards 2024 .The heroine is Lily Briscoe from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, Talland House depicts Lily’s emotional journey in becoming a professional artist: her loves and friendships, mourning her dead mother, and solving the mystery of Mrs Ramsay’s sudden death. Talland House was one of the Washington Independent Review of Books ‘51 Favorite Books of 2020′.

My novel about Gwen John the artist is Radical Woman Gwen John & Rodin EER publisher

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Longlisted Yeovil Literary Prize 2020 (as Rodin’s Mistress)/Finalist Page Turner Writing Award 2022/Finalist American Writing Awards Women’s Fiction 2023. Winner Bookfest Women’s Historical Fiction 2023 

 

Short stories: ‘Cult Love’ was ‘Highly Commended’ by the National Association of Writers’ Groups, A Strange Love’ was Highly Commended’ by Write Time competition, ‘Love in Confinement’ published by Fairlight Books   https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/short_stories/love-in-confinement/

Academic books include Border Traffic, The Dictionary of Feminist Theory (the first edition of which was named ‘outstanding academic book of 1990’ by Choice), the best-selling Modern Feminisms, Feminism and Film, Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema, EUP, Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Rutgers UP, and editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, EUP. Radical Space (co-ed.) D. Shaw, Rowman & Littlefield. Forthcoming: The Bloomsbury Photographs Yale University Press, 2024 https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300273755/the-bloomsbury-photographs/