So sadly, summer’s over, and I’ve started working on Novel No. 2, which will keep me occupied for much of the autumn.  But first, here’s the video of my TEDx London talk, which was a rousing finish to my book tour for Dark Chapter earlier this summer.  I got a standing ovation!

In other news, the German edition of Dark Chapter recently came out — it’s been retitled Nein and given a fantastic new cover.  Media coverage has been great.  Here’s a full-page review in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Switzerland’s most prestigious newspaper, I’ve been told), and an interview with me in Jetzt, the youth-oriented magazine that is part of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. That makes eight editions of Dark Chapter so far (the Icelandic version is missing from the photo below):

A growing collection of foreign editions…

I recently had the honour of being a judge for the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018, for which I won 2nd prize in 2016, for the unpublished manuscript of Dark Chapter.  This time, I got to read the unpublished manuscripts of some very promising women of colour writers in the UK.  Many of them will be excellent books one day, and it was truly a pleasure to work with my fellow judges Susheila Nasta, Kadija George, and Sharmaine Lovegrove. Here’s to more diversity in the arts, and all the talent that’s out there!

I have a few events coming up this autumn, in London, Scotland, and Ireland — notably I’m a speaker at the Safe World Summit 2018 in Dublin. And there is very exciting news coming in the next few weeks, so stay tuned!