13th June 2025
Our first trade review from the US! Kirkus has given Daughter of the Underworld one of its coveted STARRED reviews, and we are over the moon!

16th May 2025
Found out this morning that Daughter of the Underworld (US title) has been selected by the Junior Library Guild for their 2025 fall list! The JLG is a book-of-the-month club for librarians across the US so we couldn’t be more delighted!
12th February 2025
Our first Publisher’s Weekly announcement: The House of Shadows duology is coming to the US! Daughter of Darkness will be published 2nd September as Daughter of the Underworld, by the wonderful Candlewick Press.

12th November 2024
Delighted to reveal that The Witch’s Kiss trilogy is republished today by Open Road Media – head over the ‘Our Books’ section to see the fabulous new covers. New audio books also coming Spring 2025.
24th June 2023
Less than a month to go until QUEEN OF GODS hits the shelves, and we’ve got some events coming up!
FRIDAY 7TH JULY: Twitter chat (6.30pm BST) with us, Bex Hogan, Bea Fitzgerald, Ann Sei Lin and Anna Waterworth. We’ll be discussing all things myth and fantasy! Follow along with the hashtag #FantasyFriday.

THURSDAY 13TH JULY: we will be at the Hot Key Books Influencer evening in London.
TUESDAY 25TH JULY: we will be back on Twitter for #UKTeenChat, hosted by the brilliant Emma Finlayson-Palmer (@FinlaysonPalmer), author of Autumn Moonbeam.
SATURDAY 29TH JULY: we will be at CAMP YA appearing at 11am together with Annaliese Avery, author of The Immortal Games

19th January 2023 – COVER REVEAL!
Very excited to share Micaela Alcaino’s cover design for QUEEN OF GODS, the sequel to Daughter Of Darkness. It was an absolute joy to work with Micaela again. She’s produced stunning covers for both the standard edition……
and the Forbidden Planet special edition!
25th March 2022 – COVER REVEAL!
We’ve been blown away by the amazing response to Micaela Alcaino’s stunning design for the cover of Daughter Of Darkness, especially since it comes on the same day that she’s been nominated for the Designer of the Year award in the British Book Awards.
20th January 2022 – The news is out! We’re very excited to finally be able to reveal that we are publishing a brand new duology with the wonderful Hot Key Books! Loosely inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice, DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS is set in an alternative Ancient Greece where the warlike Mycenaean civilization never fell and where heroes have long been consigned to history, but the gods have never retreated. Here is the press release from The Bookseller with a little more information:

4th March 2021 – we’re delighted that A Throne Of Swans is one of the five books shortlisted for the 2020 Sussex Coast Schools Amazing Book Awards! Huge thanks to everyone who voted for us!
2nd August 2020 – COVER REVEAL FOR A CROWN OF TALONS!

17th May 2020 – A Throne Of Swans is now published in Russia! You can order it here. And here’s the cover:

3rd February 2020 – A Throne Of Swans gets an Amazon bestseller flag!

2nd October 2019 – COVER REVEAL!

How gorgeous is this?! It was designed by Alexandra Allden from Bonnier Books with the assistance of Steve Newman; he created the throne in 3D so that Alexandra’s amazing design could be ‘carved’ into it. We’re so thrilled!
27th July 2019 – We can now reveal that the title of our next YA novel is A Throne Of Swans. We’re so excited to introduce readers to the world of Solanum, a kingdom ruled by a noble elite who can shapeshift into birds representing their family bloodline. When her father dies, 18 year old Aderyn travels to the court of her uncle the king, seeking the truth about her mother’s murder six years earlier. A risky move, since Aderyn has a secret that – if it becomes known – will jeopardize her position and her life. As she is drawn into the dark corruption of the court, Aderyn discovers the true cost of revenge: to save the land she loves, she may have to sacrifice more than she’d ever bargained for. Inspired by Swan Lake, with hints of both Hamlet and Game of Thrones, you can join the flight on 9th January 2020!
15th May 2019 – We are delighted to announce that our next two YA books will be published by Hot Key Books, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre. Watch this space for updates…