I wrote about August and REM in this month's Substack essay. Read August and Everything After: Life's Rich Pageant and Summer's End for free here

Just over a month until my third novel. Time Being, is published by Salt Books on 7th September. We've had some wonderful endorsement from Monique Roffey, Amanda Craig,Toby Lloyd, Emily Midorikawa, Alice Jolly, Michael Arditti and Richard Skinner. Do please pre-order from Waterstones, Amazon or direct from Salt Books here

I wrote about 70s movies and dysfunctional families in my Substack essay for July. Read We Are Not Alone: UFOs, Parents and Other Mysteries here

Here's my double review of Nora Lange's short story collection Day Care and debut novel Us Fools, published in the UK by & Stories Press. Read the full piece in the TLS

The Worst Man in Literature has many possible candidates but a strong contender is surely Mickey Sabbath in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre. Read this month's Substack essay, Beyond the Pale, for free here

Delighted to have a new short story in On Being Ill, a vital and exciting anthology of work about the challenges of physical and mental illness, alongside Woolf's foundational essay & pieces by many other talented writers. Out now from New Menard Press. Order here

A May Substack essay on the last day of the month. I wrote about Larkin and hometowns in Passing Home: The Less Deceived. Read it for free here