Here's my Substack essay for August. Doubling Up: The Treatment of Twins in Literature, Film & TV (first published in the TLS Jan 2022). Read it for free here

Join me and my brother, James Cook, at the Stroud Literary Festival on Saturday 9th November at 8pm, for readings and live music from his memoir, In Her Room. Tickets here

Here's my latest Substack piece. What Lies Beneath: an essay about chronic pain and performing the well body. Read it for free here

I wrote about Benjamin Myers' wonderfully entertaining, Scarborough-set new novel, Rare Singles, in the Literary Review

Here's my review of Austin Duffy's tremendously tense and unsettling Troubles novel, Cross, set at the time of the '94 ceasefire, in the Guardian

I reviewed Michael Deagler's consistently wise and funny debut novel, Early Sobrieties, in the Spectator

Here's my Substack essay for flaming June. How I discovered the peerless fiction of Yasunari Kawabata in the most unlikely of places. Read it for free here