Monday, 2 June 2025

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





Tuesday, 27 May 2025

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


















Friday, 23 May 2025

A Substack post for May. Read Confessions of a Collector: On Being a 1970s Movie Obsessive for free here






Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Here's an interesting piece about Conduit Books that interviews three early career male novelists - Derek Owusu, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert & Leo Robson - in GQ Magazine









Here's my review of Ben Markovits's quietly enthralling, middle-aged road-trip novel, The Rest of Our Lives, in the Spectator



Monday, 5 May 2025

The launch of my new small press CONDUIT BOOKS has so far been covered by the Guardian (twice), the Times, the Telegraph, the Bookseller, Radio 4 and the French literary magazine Actualitté. Read and listen here:

The Guardian 28th April 2025





The Times 29th April 2025




The Guardian 2nd May 2025




Radio 4 PM with Evan Davis (at 23.50) 29th April 2025



Acutalitté 4th May 2025