My book of the year was Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens. Here's a round-up of the best fiction of 2016 for Review 31

Here's my piece on Tony Tulathimutte's brilliantly caustic debut, Private Citizens, in Literary Review

Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen is the third Man Booker 2016 shortlisted novel I've written about. Here's my review for the New Statesman

Europe, race, and the notion of The Other are all explored in Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Everything I Don't Remember. Here's my piece for Review 31

Paul Beatty's The Sellout is the second Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel I've written about. Here's my piece in the Literary Review

I review Adrien Bosc's superb novella, Constellation, for the TLS

"Let's hit the road, Terror". Here's my review of Seraphina Madsen's daring, sui generis, road trip debut novel, Dodge and Burn, in 3AM Magazine

Here are two debut novels that put race, disability, and working-class culture at the centre of their stories. I review them together for Litro

Brilliant to return to the Margate Bookie Festival for the Literary Lounge on August 21st. A great line-up, with much bookish discussion, was led by Chair Laura Powell, along with Samantha Ellis and Amy Sackville. Here's to Margate Bookie 2017!

I take a close look at David Park's magisterial new collection of short stories, Gods and Angels, in Review 31

The good people at Structo magazine ran a story of mine for their issue #15 back in February. Read 'Limehouse Blues' here

Two cracking literary historical novels, both published on June 16th. Here's my review of Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent and Natasha Walter's A Quiet Life, for Litro

I reviewed Lionel Shriver's searing dystopian satire, The Mandibles, back in May for the Literary Review

My thoughts on David Savill's hard-hitting Bosnian conflict novel, They Are Trying to Break Your Heart, are in the current issue of the TLS

Delighted that Storgy magazine have run a short story of mine. Read 'Marianne, you're Falling' here

A mythical lost Surrealist, and nuanced prose. Both are to be found in Miles Allinson's debut novel Fever of Animals. Here's my piece for the Literary Review

Here's my take on two politically engaged new novels, Siren by Annemarie Neary, and Iron Towns, by Anthony Cartwright. I review both for Review 31

Politically engaged new fiction? Here's my review of Guillermo Erades' playful, meditative debut novel, Back to Moscow, for Litro Magazine

David Szalay's new book All That Man Is (not quite a novel, not quite a collection of short stories) is stunning, and represents the kind of fiction that's become harder to find these days. Here's my review for the Spectator

The good people at Litro ran another story of mine back in February. Set on the Eurostar to Paris, 'The Invisible Ones' can be read here

My piece on Graham Swift's brilliant novella Mothering Sunday in the current Literary Review

Here are my thoughts on Clare Morrall's new dystopian novel, When the Floods Came, for the Spectator.

A splendid time was had by all at the launch of Structo magazine issue 15, at the Albion Beatnik bookshop in Oxford on Saturday night. I read, alongside contributors who included short story writers Paula Hunter and Dan Micklethwaite. Here's editing supremo Euan Monaghan introducing Paula (and the event) below: