Born in Yorkshire, I grew up in country Australia. After stints in Melbourne, London, Moscow, Edinburgh and Tokyo, I now live in Glasgow. My first book, The Inheritors, a dystopian YA novel, was published in 1988. Back then, the world was going to end through nuclear war, not climate change. A new version of The Inheritors was released in January 2024, the first in a five-part series.
I also write contemporary, historical and fantasy fiction.
