My Book of the Year 2018 is Sulaiman Addonia's Silence is my Mother Tongue, a compelling novel set in a Sudanese refugee camp. Here's my piece for Review 31

David Keenan's Belfast-set second novel, For the Good Times, is a ferocious take on the Troubles. Here's my piece for the Literary Review

Home is the second short film of mine to be directed by Meena Ayittey. We co-wrote it and shot it two years ago, and now it's great to see it doing so well on the festival circuit. Watch the trailer here

I reviewed Gary Shteyngart's humane and hilarious new novel, Lake Success, in the i-paper

The Mechanics' Institute Review have run my short story about fathers and sons. Read 'The Last Lunch' here

With echoes of Dickens, Jules Verne and Toni Morrison, Esi Edugyan's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Washington Black, is an extraordinary feat of imagination. Here's my review for the TLS

I reviewed Caoilinn Hughes's ambitious, picaresque debut novel, Orchid and the Wasp, for the TLS