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I had a great time recording an audio-tour, Dead Men in Deptford, to celebrate Deptford Literature Festival in March 2022. The tour takes in local literary types from Christopher Marlowe to Charles Dickens, diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, Joseph Conrad and Anthony Burgess.
The tour is still online, so you can listen in, download the map and transcript, and visit yourself – or just listen in and imagine the scenery!
I enjoyed a long chat with Rachel New, outreach officer for Lewisham Libraries, for their Lewisham Voices website, about the inspiration behind Unlawful Things and my next novel, The Peacock Room. In
cludes tips on writing in lockdown, becoming a journalist, and how not to give up on your novel during eight years of writing!
You can listen to our conversation here.
Before lockdown, I joined Creative Conversations podcaster Yang-May Ooi for a preview of the William Blake exhibition. Blake was a visionary artist and poet – and features strongly in my next Helen Oddfellow novel. You can listen to our conversation here.