I am a writer of fiction and nonfiction. My fiction includes a novel, Drawn to Perfection (Hookline Books, 2013) and ‘Jane Austen over the Styx’, winner of the inaugural Jane Austen short story prize in 2009 and included in Dancing with Mr Darcy, ed. Sarah Waters (Honno, 2009). My non-fiction publications include James Brindley and the Duke of Bridgewater – Canal Visionaries (Amberley Publishing, 2015); Aqueducts and Viaducts of Britain (Amberley Publishing, 2019); Lady Charlotte Guest – the Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist (Pen and Sword, 2020 – winner of the Wales Book of the Year Creative Non-fiction Category Award, 2021) and The Life of L.T.C. Rolt – Where Engineering Met Literature (Pen and Sword, 2024).