Writing

In addition to My Family and Other Seedlings and War Gardens I have written for a number of British publications and can turn my hand to any style or voice be it hard news, opinion, non fiction or fiction. Below are some extracts and links to writing available to read online.

Good Housekeeping, November 2024

It was around five o’clock in the morning in August 2021 when I took a phone call from an unknown American number. It was a soldier calling from the gates of Kabul Airport, during the mass evacuation after the Taliban took power..

The Daily Telegraph, 2021

Coverage of the Taliban’s take over of Kabul in August 2021

The Times and Sunday Times

Various news pieces and features from one of the UK’s best loved broadsheet

The Telegraph Magazine

No man’s land: Inside the lives of female soldiers on the frontline