I’m a writer and an academic, now living in Falmouth, Cornwall, where I’m working on my next book and teaching English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus.
I’ve written two novels, Night Waking (Granta, 2011) and Cold Earth (Granta, 2009).
I also write non-fiction: a literary history of the Arctic and Antarctic (The Frozen Ship, BlueBridge, 2007); an academic monograph on food and gender in Romantic-era women’s fiction (Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women’s Fiction 1770-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)) and, co-authored with Alexander Badenoch, a cultural history of chocolate (Chocolate: A Global History (London: Reaktion Books, 2009)).
My memoir of a year in Iceland, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland, is published by Granta at the beginning of July.
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