Happy 30th birthday to me! Obligatory birthday photo with the boys ♥️🌈⚓ Ever so proud and happy that I have had three books trad pubbed before my 30th birthday, that still absolutely blows my mind 😮 It's such a dream come true 🥰🥰

Made it to Exeter ready for the Bowlines maritime festival! ⚓🌊

Great time speaking at the Bowlines maritime festival at Exeter Custom House with Alaric Bond and JD Davies. Always love chatting about naval fiction!

Had a great weekend in Exeter for the Bowlines maritime festival! Really enjoyed the talks as well as meeting some amazing people including JamesFitzjames.com ⚓️. Thank you again to the SNR for inviting me ⚓🌊♥️

In France 🇫🇷 (I'm a big fan of my new hat 😂)

Angers today 🇫🇷🇫🇷

Fontevraud Abbey 🇫🇷🇫🇷

Our fluffy tour guide at the Troglodyte village in Forges wasn't very talkative but was very cute 😂🐱

I struck absolute gold at the antique book shop today 🤩🤩 I went Terra Nova mad (+Shackleton)

Lovely evening at Medina Publishing with Anna Britton 🪴, Kathryn Rossati and Mary Grand for our Pages, Plots and Publishing panel! We chatted about our different experiences in the publishing industry and our opinions on the highs and lows of it ♥️

🎧 The latest episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast is now available: snr.org.uk/the-mariners-m…

I have a very exciting event coming up! On July 24 at 8pm, I shall be 'in conversation' with the fab Isle of Wight literary magazine, Brevity. We'll chat about my journey as a writer, and most excitingly, there'll be dramatic readings of excerpts from Leeward! Brevity, The Isle of Wight's Literary Handbill

I've just created a substack! I'll be chatting about historical fiction, queer representation, and all things maritime. Let me know if you have a substack and I shall subscribe (especially if you chat about writing and/or history!)

Fab time marching with Out On An Island and StoneCrabs Theatre at Isle of Wight Pride! Nightingale and Courtney also came with me in pin badge form 😂🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Always happy to spread the word of the Ross Sea party 🙏😂

So excited for this event on Thursday (24 July) at Department, Ryde. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful Isle of Wight literary magazine, Brevity (Brevity, The Isle of Wight's Literary Handbill), and there will be dramatic readings from Leeward (I heard them in rehearsal last week and they're AMAZING!)

Tonight! 🏳️‍🌈⚓🌊⛵🌈

Brilliant evening at Department for my In Conversation event! Thank you to Brevity, The Isle of Wight's Literary Handbill for organising, to the fantastic actors, Hillard, Callum and Rob who gave staged readings, to Joe for interviewing me, and to everyone who came along to support! 🏳️‍🌈⚓🌊

Cherry pilgrimage to Wheathampstead! Went to his grave, saw his statue, and completely underestimated the walk past his former estate and ended up almost getting lost while trekking over the footpaths 🤣 A proper Cherry experience 😅

Hi everyone! I'm going to be moving over to Bluesky so pls come follow me on kdayshauthor over there if you want to keep up to date ❤️ I get so little visibility over here these days 😭