A new Substack essay for June: I wrote about the best film to feature a non-actor in the lead role. Read This Never Happened to the Other Fella for free here

Thrilled to announce Salt Books are to publish my new novel, Time Being, in September 2026. I can't think of a better home for my book! Read the Bookseller piece here

Here's my review of Drayton and Mackenzie, Alexander Starritt's capacious, elegantly written novel of entrepreneurship and bromance in the TLS

I reviewed Harriet Armstrong's fierce and tender tale of first love, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, in the Guardian

I reviewed Wendy Erskine's terrific, polyphonic debut novel, The Benefactors, in the June issue of the Literary Review

Conduit Books made the front page of Guardian Saturday at the weekend, with wonderfully thoughtful contributions from novelists Anne Enright, Nikesh Shukla, Sarah Moss & Leo Robson. Read it here

I wrote about the overwhelmingly positive response (& the valid criticism) to the announcement of Conduit Books in this week's Bookseller