NOVELS
Red Mirrors
In a fully animate world where psychological states are real landscapes, a pair of shipwrecked lovers cause each other's deaths again and again, a half-human island girl searches for her missing sisters, while in a mountain citadel a guardian investigates the parade of red mirrors and a timeless woman speaks with the voice of blood.
‘In the mountain citadel, I ate my eye so I could see. The mountain dissolved me, took me inside his deepest secrets and made me watch his genesis. Then I watched his long erosion so I’d know how to perceive what wasn’t there, how to fill the space he once filled and sculpt his shape from our tattered geometrics.’
(Novel in progress – speculative, surreal)
Becoming and Dissolving
In 1850s tsarist Odesa, disgraced countess Katerina pursues freedom from the oppressive regime, while police chief Orlov, son of a traitor, seeks security within the chaotic establishment.
‘Stranded halfway down the last flight of stairs, she had a vision of herself in a house without servants. Could she have left this life whenever she wanted, if only she could remember how to operate doors and choices for herself? Small freedoms had been hers all along, but she’d forgotten how to link them together, like the elementary movements of a dance she’d learnt as a child but hadn’t danced since.’
(Completed novel – literary, historical, adventure/thriller)
Emerald Noose
Young adult historical adventure
Published under the pen name Georgie Belmont
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Greenwood's fate dangles by a thread.
In an isolated hamlet in Victorian England's lake country, Lizzie's ruthless uncle controls every soul; and the mill he took from her missing father. Now she wants it back.
Threatened by her rebellion, Lizzie's uncle will stop at nothing to silence her. In search of allies, she plunges into a hostile world of shifting loyalties, criminal pacts and social unrest.
When she becomes entangled in a larger and more dangerous plot, Lizzie discovers just how far she'll go to fight for what she believes in...