Author's Stories

Sidebar of Shame

The Facebook photo album of Lucy’s life was without defect. Drinking champagne on a yacht, laughing on a beach, catwalk perfect at a premiere. The edited highlights for your viewing pleasure. A showcase of half-truths and lies.

Anything Else

Marley’s favourite journeys were those when she arrived as a new woman. In her own mind at least she was a wholly changed person, getting away from her life so entirely it was forgotten.


Martel Maxwell

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Author Bio

MARTEL MAXWELL is a redhead who hails from Dundee in Scotland. After training to be a criminal lawyer, she opted for a career in journalism, becoming The Sun’s first graduate trainee. Spotting her love of partying, she became the paper’s showbiz reporter and lost a few years to free bars and canapes.

Martel drew on her experiences to write her debut novel SCANDALOUS, published by Michael Joseph (Penguin), about a showbiz reporter called Max who drinks too much and her posh half-sister Lucy who falls for Britain’s most eligible bachelor. It was named ‘book of the week’ by Heat and Piers Morgan described it as ‘a brilliantly waspish insight into the mad world of showbiz.’

Martel is a freelance presenter on television shows including Lorraine and The One Show and is writing her second novel. She has just given birth to baby boy Monty, after marrying the first boy she kissed (it took him two decades to ask her out). She splits her time between Dundee and London.