The Wimpling Wing is my debut novel. It’s not out yet. But I’m excited for you to read it, so here’s a wee teaser of what it’s about and its journey onto the page.

When an unmanned helicopter crashes into a field of wheat and exposes a government food weaponisation project, a reclusive cryptographer finds herself having to choose between complicity and allowing a national food crisis to unfold.

For many years this story was an unlabelled, dormant seed lurking deep in my mind. Years later, the desire to simplify the operations on my family’s farm triggered its germination, and it wasn’t long before self interest shifted to a wider curiosity.

A curiosity about how agriculture could feed our world’s burgeoning population, and how it would do so without destroying the planet in the process.

The fourth agricultural revolution is upon us – embracing machine learning and artificial intelligence as it steps tentatively forwards.

How far will it go?

How far can it go?

How far should it go?

These three questions fuelled the development and evolution of the story, and yet at the heart of everything, there remains always the exploitative actions of humankind. And at the heart of The Wimpling Wing stands one woman…

Her name is Cora Griffin.