My latest novel, Ice Cream Boy, came out with fabulous Floris Books in May 2024. Ice Cream Boy is my most personal book yet and I am crossing my fingers that people enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Luca thinks his future is set, running his family’s ice cream cafe. But when the business might close and his gran begins struggling with dementia, Luca feels increasingly lost. A heartwarming story of family, resilience and hope.

In April 2023 , Euro Spies, was published by the wonderful Cranachan Books, Scotland’s Small Press of the Year 2022!

Samia is thrilled to win a sight-seeing holiday to Europe, but when shots are fired in the middle of the night on the Euro Metro, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary school trip. Samia, and her fellow prize-winners, Ava and Frankie, are catapulted into a world of art, espionage, and terrible danger. Can the children solve the fiendish clues hidden on famous European landmarks and avoid the scary strangers who are stalking their every move?

Guardians of the Wild Unicorns and Secrets of the Last Merfolk are published by Floris Books. Both are coming out as audiobooks later this year. Guardians was nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, longlisted for the 2020 Phoenix Children’s Book Award and shortlisted for the 2020 East Sussex Children’s Book of the Year and for the 2020 Stockton Children’s Book of the Year. The stunning cover was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s Book Cover of the Year Award. 

Lewis and his best friend Rhona find themselves caught up in a dangerous adventure to save the world’s last herd of wild unicorns. Fighting against dark forces, battling the wild landscape, and harnessing ancient magic, can they rescue the legendary creatures in time?

The Rewilders came out in March 2022 and was longlisted for the Spark! School Book Award.

After Esmé’s gran accidentally steals a lynx kitten, Esmé and school ‘bad boy’ Calum, take on a dangerous mission to return it to the wild in the Scottish Highlands.

The Titanic Detective Agency was published on the 15th of April 2019 by Cranachan Books and has proved very popular in schools all over the UK. It is Cranachan’s best-selling title and there’s now an audiobook version!

A fresh and compelling re-telling of the Titanic voyage—with a Scottish twist. Based on real passengers and events, fact and fiction are skilfully woven together to create a meaningful and moving account of events aboard RMS Titanic.

My other three novels are A Pattern of Secrets, a children’s historical novel set in Victorian Paisley, The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean, which won the Kelpies Prize in 2014 and was longlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and its sequel, The Awkward Autumn of Lily McLean. 

If you read and enjoy any of my novels, do get in touch and let me know what you think!