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Insta Live chat with Michael at Bartowski Book Club

To celebrate the ebook publication of The Minders in the UK, I chat with Michael at Bartowski Book Club on instagram about the book and m...

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I chat with You're Booked

To coincide with the launch of What Lies Between Us, I was delighted to be asked to sit down and talk to You're Booked about how I came u...

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The Minders Cover Reveal

Thrilled to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming thriller, The Minders. It is released in the UK on ebook on July 23, and comes o...

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Gabby vlogs about What Lies Between Us

Thanks to the brilliant book blogger Gabby for the most enthusiastic review of What Lies Between Us you’ll ever see. If you’ve not read t...

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Chat with Meg Tucker

Thanks to Meg Tucker for chatting with me about What Lies Between Us! Click here to hear us talk about What Lies Between Us, becoming a ...

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Q&A

With the release of my next book What Lies Between Us coming on May 15, I asked my followers on Facebook and Instagram to ask me anything...

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I have a chat with Claire Allan and Fionnuala Kearney

If you fancy killing twenty minutes of lockdown by listening to me prattle on about books and babies, check out the awesome YouTube chann...

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The Book Bunker with Mark Edwards

This week I was able to spend a fantastic evening in The Book Bunker with Mark Edwards and everyone who joined to hear two men talking ab...

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My favourite reads of 2019

Here is a list of my favourite reads of the year. I’m a big fan of both audiobooks along with physical copies so this is a mixture of the...

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Chat with Meg Tucker Talks

I had a great chat with Meg Tucker about The One and its recent success in Canada. If you would like to listen please go to her YouTube p...

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Book Edits and Book Launches

It’s been a busy couple of months since my last newsletter, and following Thriller Fest in New York. Last time, I reported that I fell il...

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Seven techno thrillers to read

The One and The Passengers both question what happens when automation that has been designed to assist humanity starts working against it...

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Cover Reveal - Ich kenne deine Lügen

Excited to be able to share the cover of Ich kenne deine Lügen, which is the German version of When You Disappeared. This will be my fou...

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How The One reached Netflix

Literary scout Kate Loftus-O'Brien, who discovered The One, discusses how she scouts books like mine for production companies. Click here...

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The International Thriller Awards

Last week was a fantastic opportunity for book fans to meet their favourite authors in New York as part of ThrillerFest. It’s part of the...

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The Passengers is shortlisted in Dead Good Reader Awards

I am thrilled The Passengers has been shortlisted in two categories of the Dead Good Readers Awards 2019! Please feel free to vote for me...

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I predict the future...

So it turns out that I might have been psychic when it comes to The One and predicting that one day, we might use our DNA to find our per...

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The One in Canada

Thanks to Chapters Indigo, Canada’s biggest bookseller, for featuring me as their book of the month. It’s been great to see The One appea...

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The Passengers arrives in paperback and is shortlisted...

On Thursday, The Passengers had its paperback release in the UK. This meant I had the opportunity to go and sign a few copies of my boo...

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S Magazine article

When I was a journalist, I loved writing for the Sunday Express’s S Magazine. So I was delighted to be invited to write a piece about how...

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