Date elected to City Council: 3 May 2007
Occupation: Writer and University Lecturer

I was educated in Nottingham at Basford Hall College and have read English Literature at the University of Cambridge.  I am married with two children.

I used to be a journalist for the Nottingham Evening Post and I am the author of Necropolis - London and its Dead and the award winning novel Lost Time.  

I gained my PGCCE at the University of Nottingham in 2003.

I have taught at the University of Nottingham (Open Studies) and I am now a tutor at the Open University.

• Basford and Bestwood (Area 2)
• Overview and Scrutiny Committee
• Young Nottingham Select Committee
• Community Wellbeing Select Committee
• Development Control
• Greater Nottingham Light Rapid Transit Advisory