Stories that keep glowing after the last page.
I write literary fiction about memory, salt water and the strange objects we carry — including the Phishstones series. Watch the films, browse every book, and find out why I write at all.
See the work, hear the why.
Three short films: a reel of every book I've written, a personal piece on why I write, and a look inside the world of Phishstones.
The kitchen table at 5 a.m., the notebook my grandfather left me, and the one question every book is secretly trying to answer.
Stones that glow when someone nearby is lying. A drowned village. A girl who learns to read the light. The world of Phishstones in under three minutes.
Phishstones
A coastal fantasy trilogy about truth, tides and the price of seeing clearly. Read by more than 200,000 readers and counting.
- I. The Tide Keepers 2019
- II. A Lantern Under Water 2021
- III. The Last Honest Stone 2024
Selected work
“I write to find out what I already know but haven't dared to say.”
PhishStones grew up in a fishing town where the tide decided everything, and spent ten years as a radio journalist before publishing a first novel, Small Hours in Lisbon, in 2017.
Since then: seven books, including the bestselling Phishstones trilogy, now translated into twelve languages, all written by the sea with too many notebooks and one very opinionated cat.
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