Some post-Xmas reading from me: a last Substack for 2024. Aide-Mémoires: The Art of Not Forgetting. Read it for free here

I enjoyed writing about Sarah Manguso's coruscating novel, Liars, for Review 31's Books of the Year 2024. Read here

Here's my review of Duets, Scratch Books' collection of thrilling, unsettling, ambitious co-written short stories, in the Guardian

I wrote about the Booker Prize, Samantha Harvey's triumphant 2024 win, as well as The Bee Sting, Prophet Song and pain and pleasure-principle novels. Read The Wrong Paul on Substack for free here

I reviewed Andrew Miller's excellent new novel The Land in Winter, set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, in the TLS

I wrote about the strange dream that was 1970s TV, and falling for James Bond when ITV screened Goldfinger for the first time. Read my latest Substack, I Must Be Dreaming, here

I reviewed The Catchers, Xan Brooks's immersive tale of music-biz exploitation set in the 1920s Mississippi Delta, in the Literary Review