I grew up in the southwest of England, studied philosophy and English at Glasgow, and have lived in Berlin since 2013. The shape of my working life has been the same throughout: several things at once, and the combination is the point.

In Glasgow I wrote about the club scene, edited the student paper, threw parties, and worked at the Sub Club alongside Harri & Domenic and Optimo. In London I was at JWT, then Story Worldwide, where I led pitches and worked across disciplines. One piece from that time, an interactive film about sexual consent made pro bono over a weekend for The Havens, won a Cannes Lion, was used in police training for years afterwards and prompted a parliamentary question. At weekends I made a music podcast with Tom Ravenscroft.

In Berlin, the novel and the consulting work and a continuing involvement with cultural projects all happen at the same time, often informing each other in ways that are clear in retrospect and not always at the time.

Fiction

My debut novel FOLK (Velocity Press, 2025)︎︎︎ was longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. In February 2026 I appeared at Faversham Literary Festival in conversation with Emma Warren about FOLK and her book Up The Youth Club (Faber)︎︎︎. This autumn, my second novel is going to Frankfurt Book Fair, represented by my agent Sharmaine Lovegrove︎︎︎at ICA.

Consulting

Long-term editorial partnerships, usually embedded with one or two senior people who hold editorial authority and want a thinking partner. Strategy and craft together: voice, editorial content, communications systems, and the language organisations need when something is changing. Increasingly the job is also holding quality and discipline in a period when most of the alternatives produce something flatter.

Fiction lets me follow the question of language and belonging where it goes. Consulting brings the same attention to organisations trying to say something true about themselves. Each is stronger for the other.

I live in Berlin with my partner and our three children.