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Total treat to celebrate the paperback launch of  Sanctuary  in  Good Rebel , the place I wrote the final draft.  Huge thanks to owner Steve Hopkins for hosting us and for his generous idea to stick a QR code on ‘my’ table 10, linking to  this short piece . Or was it a hint? On reflection, it might be time to let someone else sit there… Equally big thanks to the ridiculously kind broadcaster and journalist Jim Delbridge of BBC Guernsey for interviewing me and for all his sup

Promoting one’s own work is inherently uncomfortable, even for a barrister versed in the art of the humblebrag. But seeing the most unspeakable abuses in my novel play out in real life has made me keener to shout about it.  From the undercover exposé of abuse inside Brook House Immigration Removal Centre to the UK’s unlawful Rwanda policy, for years every immigration story that broke seemed to mirror my plot in some way. Each time, I felt obliged to revise my manuscript to ma