Welcome to my site, a place where all my activities as a writer are explained. I’ve been writing for some years now, and become a specialist in crime history and biography. I hope that, whatever your tastes in the wide spectrum of my writing, there will be something here to interest you. My projects for the coming year are a book of essays called Jane Austen's Aunt Behind Bars (Anthem Press) and a new account of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girl of 1869, whose story hit the headlines for several months, to be called The Girl Who Lived on Air (Seren).