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Journalist for many years, my work has appeared in Woman & Home, The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday among other outlets. My first novel is Off Course, a science-fiction yarn about Cathy Prior’s attempts to get her job back by proving she didn’t screw up on a story the way her enemies are claiming.

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Aballonia. 25th century.

Famine is ravaging the universe. And journalist Cathy Prior’s world is in a mess too. Her lover’s leaving her, complaining she drinks too much. Crops everywhere are failing, millions are dying; only the ultra-rich can afford enough to eat. Unlike more conventional crops, however, bamboo is still running rampant, its root system growing with extraordinary s Read more of this blog post »

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“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

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“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.”
― Charles Dickens

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“Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?”
― Kathleen Jamie, Findings

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“We couldn't see the real dark for the metaphorical dark. Because of the metaphorical dark, the death-dark, we were constantly concerned to banish the natural dark.”
― Kathleen Jamie, Findings

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“There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothing our skins, their fats in our lamps, their bladders to carry water, meat when we could get it.”
― Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines