Writing
In addition to My Family and Other Seedlings and War Gardens I have written for a number of British publications and can turn my hand to any style or voice be it hard news, opinion, non fiction or fiction. Below are some extracts and links to writing available to read online.
Good Housekeeping, November 2024
It was around five o’clock in the morning in August 2021 when I took a phone call from an unknown American number. It was a soldier calling from the gates of Kabul Airport, during the mass evacuation after the Taliban took power..
The Daily Telegraph, 2021
Coverage of the Taliban’s take over of Kabul in August 2021
The Times and Sunday Times
Various news pieces and features from one of the UK’s best loved broadsheet
The Financial Times 2013
Kabul’s hidden gardens offer Afghans haven from war
The Telegraph Magazine
Life as an Iraqi interpreter for the British Army…
The Telegraph Magazine
No man’s land: Inside the lives of female soldiers on the frontline