Novelist, doctor and academic lawyer (specialising in corpse law if anyone asks, but they don’t). My novels include light comedies, dystopian fiction and children’s fiction, and I also write on human rights in the UK press. I have a dog, Hergest Hound, who writes his own blog. Between us we attempt, in our various ways, to chip away at the problems of the world.

I have been published as Joanna Bell (Entertaining Angels and Pillars of Salt) and Mary Selby (All That Glisters, Gargoyles and Port, That Awkward Age, A Wing and a Prayer). Now, after a significant period spent coccooned in my medical career and then being deconstructed and remade by the incredible people on the UEA creative writing masters programme, I am working on a children’s story about a dodo, and a dystopian novel exploring resistance to oppression, set in the future on the Isles of Scilly (my adopted home).