Awards
VOX takes 3rd place in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Sci-Fi!
And I couldn’t be happier! Many thanks for all the votes and the love and the kind reviews and everything else.
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HarperCollins India & VOX
This deliciously dark trailer from Team VOX in India almost makes me wish I’d written the book as a satire! Click play and be sure your volume controls are set to ‘unmute’!
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VOX chosen as an Amazon Book Review summer pick!
Ecstatic to see all the love for VOX in these last couple of months before it hits the stores on 21 August. Sometimes I have a hard time believing this is actually my book! Thank you to The Amazon Book Review for choosing it as one of 15 Highly Anticipated Read more…
Publications
VOX a Pick in The Times’ Summer Guide!
Thank goodness for alert Twitterary friends and hard-working publishers, otherwise most of these mentions would sail far below my radar. Very proud to see VOX included in Style’s Guide to Summer over at The Sunday Times (that other Sunday Times). I’m in stellar company, too. Other mentions include: The Wives Read more…
Dystopian Fiction
VOX gets nine stars in Starburst Magazine!
I always hear about these things after everyone else, sort of like opening your Christmas prezzies on Boxing Day. No matter — a present is a present is a present. And this one from the UK-based sci-fi publication Starburst Magazine made my day. As usual, clicking on the pretty image Read more…
Dystopian Fiction
On language denial…the *other* theme in VOX
I was over the moon when one of my publishers, HQ HarperCollinsUK, asked me to write an article on the linguistic elements in VOX, specifically, on the speculative (and very frightening) question of what might happen in future generations. Each time I’m asked about the genesis of the novel, I Read more…
Dystopian Fiction
Entertainment Weekly Picks VOX as Handmaid’s Tale-fan Friendly!
Some things make me as speechless as my main character. Like this shoutout from EW listing VOX as one of “10 Prescient New Feminist Dystopias to Read After The Handmaid’s Tale.” Now, I’m never going to put myself in Margaret Atwood’s league — perhaps in my next life I’ll start writing Read more…
Dystopian Fiction
Orwell and me
Are on the same list. It’s nice, because usually when I think of George Orwell and me showing up in the same breath, I imagine something along the lines of “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could write a book as good as one of Orwell’s?” Whether I’ve come even Read more…