Natalie will be appearing at Women's Word, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge on 19th June 2010.


The Ancient Guide To Modern Life

Natalie's new book, The Ancient Guide To Modern Life, will be published by Profile Books in November 2010. It's about how the modern world is more interesting when it's refracted through the prism of the ancient one. You can pre-order it from Amazon here.

You can watch a video of Natalie talking about The Ancient Guide To Modern Life below.


The Great Escape

Natalie's first novel, The Great Escape, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. It won a PETA Proggy award for Best Animal-Friendly Children's Book in 2008.


Natalie has contributed an essay to An Atheist's Guide To Christmas, profits of which go to the Terrence Higgins Trust. She also wrote an essay for Serenity Found, a book about Joss Whedon's television show, Firefly, edited by Jane Espenson, which was published in autumn 2007 by BenBella Books. Her entries on subjects from Agatha Christie to EF Benson can be found in Cassell's Little Black Book Of Books, published in Autumn 2007.

She is currently working on a new book, this time for adults.