On this site you can find out all about me and my books and the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. So what's new apart from the wallpaper? On the news page you can find out where I'll be teaching workshops in 2008, I've added a new FAQ on Massive for those of you writing projects and papers about the book and there are some new links and articles for writers and students. Thanks for stopping by!

My latest novel Dirty Work is out now in the UK and the US next month! The book deals with  issues of human trafficking and I am giving 50p a copy to UNICEF from the UK first edition. You can read an exclusive extract on this site. Click here to buy the book for £5.99 from Amazon.

'Like Patricia McCormick’s Sold, this novel gives headlines about sexual slavery a human face.' Booklist

‘Bell’s debut, Massive, was a powerful exploration of body dysmorphia and Dirty Work, published on the bicentenary of Parliament’s vote to abolish the salve trade is as timely as it is punchy.’ The Times

'Gritty . . . pitch perfect . . . provocative.' The Observer

‘Follows in an illustrious literary tradition of taking readers, through story, into the seedier side of a reality that cannot be ignored even if most people would rather avoid it’ The Guardian

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