Historical Novelist, Biographer, Historian

Captain Cook

Mrs Burnett and Mr Baret: Women at Sea

I’ve recently reissued my first novel, To The Fair Land, with a new cover. Set in the eighteenth century during the Age of Sail, it tells the story of struggling …

Captain James Cook at the British Library – Exhibition

In August 2018 I saw the British Library exhibition “Captain Cook: The Voyages”. I was particularly interested in it because Cook’s voyages were one of the inspirations behind my first …