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Short Stories

Spaghetti

Clear as Glass

Prize Winning short story

A surreal story about how a woman copes with real life when she is experiencing trauma.

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The Wall Around You

A story set in Birmingham's canal

What would you do if you saw something very strange, something you weren't meant to see, something not even there? This is a story about the impossible, and life, and finding inner peace.

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Podcast: The Wall Around You

Episode 3 of the podcasts of 'Birmingham'

Listen to this podcast to get a flavour of the ideas which inspired my story, and to hear me read an extract of it!

Wedding Dress

Left Hanging

Momaya Press Competition Winner

'Left Hanging' is a story written from the point of view of a wedding dress. How does it perceive the happiest, and perhaps also saddest times, in a woman's life?

Stray cat lying on train railways in Vietnam

A Cat May Look At A King

Literary Veganism: An Online Journal

Ever met a vegan who talks to cows?
Or a post-denominational rabbi?
And what's all that got to do with a cat?

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The Volunteers

What would you do if you found yourself in another world, a world where you were taught everyone killed and hated, and yet in this very world you are treated with love and kindness? Read on to find out...

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My first novel!

This novel was longlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2018 and sat in a drawer for much of the time since, until a publisher at Matar publishing house received it and  loved it!

This novel is a work of historical fiction inspired by a true story. About a British fascist falling in love with a Jewish German refugee, when both were interned on the Isle of Man, it deals with highly contemporary issues such as antisemitism, wartime, immigration and of course, love.

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Why you should

This a a short story about young woman's partner who is drinking alcohol while driving her and her baby. A passer-by sees, and has to make that split decision whether to call the police or not. What would you do?

Published by the organization Yad Ve Yad, and written during a workshop led by famous Arab author Iyad Barghouti. Translated into Arabic and Hebrew.

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While the mothers are crying; What can you do with that

Two poems in response to the terrorist attack, the first devoted to Vivian Silver, the peace activist and co-founder of Women Wage Peace who was slaughtered in her home on October 7th.

Two poems published in aChord Quarterly Newszine, Winter Ed. No. 13 (to be published January 1st 2024)

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Thursday Nights

Extract from my first novel

The exciting new anthology Thursday Nights celebrates 40 years of Tindal Street Fiction Group, with a collection of short fiction from members of the group today. It’s not just any writing group, though – it’s truly extraordinary. Begun in 1983, it gave birth to regional publishing powerhouse Tindal Street Press in the 1990s, and is made up of accomplished writers.

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