My new book, ‘Martine’, will be out on Kindle in just over two weeks, and it’s partly a tale of the triumph of new love over grief for love lost. But it’s also a story of the pernicious futility of misogyny and homophobia. Some of my readers will […]
When I was five and first at school, there was a little girl in my class called Jane. I haven’t seen her since I was seven, I wonder what happened to her. But I remember she had a lisp which all the grown-ups thought was absolutely adorable. So […]
Rock music looms large in my novels, as it always has in my life. Rock bands are central to my vision of the Saltbury Universe and most of the ones I talk about include lesbian or bi-sexual women. There’s Debbie Stewart’s ‘Xeroed’ and ‘Aleyse’, and Deb has been […]