About the author

My writing career covers many different genres. I’ve published novels (The Bigger the Better, HarperCollins and Mel Pepper & the Meaning of Wife) and have co-written two plays (My Wife Whatsername  and Fit to Bust with Christopher Lillicrap). I wrote the lyrics and co-wrote (with Rena Valeh) the book for a musical (Royal Box). 

I have been a broadcast journalist for many years, working in the newsroom at the BBC. I presented news bulletins on World Service and contributed reports to From Our Own Correspondent. 

In 2018 a documentary I made for BBC Radio 4, Meeting the Man I Killed, about my own experience of trauma and post-traumatic stress won Gold for Best Factual Storytelling at the Radio Academy Industry Awards (ARIA, formerly Sony Award) and was nominated for the Prix Italia.  I have had articles published in The Guardian about trauma and about my career as a psychotherapist.

Recently I have begun to enjoy the challenge of writing screenplays and short stories. In 2021 I wrote, recorded and published a non-fiction audiobook: My Year of Bad Sex. 

I am currently working on a novel, a screenplay, various short stories… and whatever else takes my imagination. 

Gold Award for Best Factual Storytelling, Radio Academy ARIAS 2018
Kim Normanton, Jonathan Izard

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