Where The Salt Archive began: a ledger in a lighthouse museum
A water-stained book of ship names, a museum that closed at four, and the question that became a novel.
Journal
Journal
The Salt Archive book tour: every date, and how to get a signed copy
Launch night in London, festivals in Edinburgh and New York, and an online evening for book clubs everywhere.
Seven drafts and a kitchen table: how I revise a novel
Coloured pencils, index cards and the one question I ask of every chapter before it survives into the next draft....
A day at the writing desk
Green ink before nine, a walk on the shingle at noon and why the afternoons belong to letters.