Look at this absolute beauty! Great cover by Mark Swan, as always. Out 12.9.24 with Orenda Books.

THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY is only 99p on ebook EVERYWHERE. Full of life and death and love and grief and compassion and empathy and other stuff too. https://geni.us/LoBLS6

I am absolutely delighted to officially launch The Collapsing Wave at my local bookshop in Porty on Tuesday 19th March. I’ll be chatting to incredible author Rachelle Atalla about the book and I’ll play a couple of songs as well, you know the drill. Tickets here.

I’ve got a handful of live appearances coming up, including the incredibly worthwhile event below – what a line up! Tickets are sold out, but you could check here in case of returns. I’ll also be at a bunch of festivals over the next few months, both book and music stuff, but I can’t tell you about any of that yet, soz.

SIGNED COPIES
I went to a warehouse last week in my octopus T-shirt and signed 1,000 copies of The Collapsing Wave, as well as a few hundred copies of The Space Between Us. They should be available in most bookshops if you ask.

THE COLLAPSING WAVE PLAYLIST
I’ve put together a Spotify playlist of songs that resonate with the book. Some pretty mind-blowing stuff on there. Check it out here.

BLOG TOUR
As well as terrific shout outs in the likes of New Scientist, Prima and Snack magazine, The Collapsing Waveis in the middle of an amazing blog tour – check out the bloggers below for their reviews. General consensus seems to be that they’re blown away, which is lovely.

ARTICLE IN SCIFINOW MAGAZINE
I wrote a piece for SciFiNow magazine about my favourite First Contact stories. You can read it here. Some of my favourite novels of all time are on this list. 

My seventeenth novel, The Collapsing Wave, is out TODAY, published by the wonderful Orenda Books. It’s the sequel to last year’s The Space Between Us, and I can’t wait for you to read it. You can get it in paperback or ebook on the links below. Or you can order signed and dedicated copies from my local shop, The Portobello Bookshop.

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Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation … The awe-inspiring, exquisitely moving sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on BBC Two’s Between the Covers.

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Six months since the earth-shattering events of The Space Between Us, the revelatory hope of the aliens’ visit has turned to dust and the creatures have disappeared into the water off Scotland’s west coast.
 
Teenager Lennox and grieving mother Heather are being held in New Broom, a makeshift US military base, the subject of experiments alongside the Enceladons who have been captured by the authorities.
 
Ava, who has given birth, is awaiting the jury verdict at her trial for the murder of her husband. And MI7 agent Oscar Fellowes, who has been sidelined by the US military, is beginning to think he might be on the wrong side of history.
 
When alien Sandy makes contact, Lennox and Heather make a plan to escape with Ava. All three of them are heading for a profound confrontation between the worst of humanity and a possible brighter future, as the stakes get higher for the alien Enceladons and the entire human race…
 
Sequel to the bestselling The Space Between Us, The Collapsing Wave is an exquisite, epic first-contact novel, laced with peril and populated by unforgettable characters, and the awe-inspiring book we all need right now…

Ooft, always good to get to this stage. A ton of work still to do, but the first draft of the sixth Skelfs book is finished. Now to start tearing it to bits on Monday. Out in September!