My first novel, Vanguard’, is a work of literary fiction: a series of snapshots, over a forty-year period in the late twentieth century, of the Carson family, of a town called Vanguard where the hum of the shipyards is the soul of the place, and of a nuclear submarine as it circumnavigates the globe.

It is a novel about growing up mixed-race in a place where “ethnic” is used as a one-size-fits-all noun; about the routes people take towards escape; and what happens to individuals when a decision is made to submerge the truth.

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In my second novel, two neighbours form an uneasy and unlikely friendship amidst the chaos of the UK asylum and immigration system...