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Friday 30 December 2016
Friday 4 November 2016
Here's my piece on Tony Tulathimutte's brilliantly caustic debut, Private Citizens, in Literary Review
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Sunday 9 October 2016
Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen is the third Man Booker 2016 shortlisted novel I've written about. Here's my review for the New Statesman
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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
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Friday 30 September 2016
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
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Wednesday 21 September 2016
"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
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Wednesday 31 August 2016
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
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Tuesday 23 August 2016
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!
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Sunday 14 August 2016
I take a close look at David Park's magisterial new collection of short stories, Gods and Angels, in Review 31
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Tuesday 2 August 2016
The good people at Structo magazine ran a story of mine for their issue #15 back in February. Read 'Limehouse Blues' here
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Monday 18 July 2016
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
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Sunday 3 July 2016
I reviewed Lionel Shriver's searing dystopian satire, The Mandibles, back in May for the Literary Review
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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
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Thursday 2 June 2016
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
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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
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Sunday 1 May 2016
Politically engaged new fiction? Here's my review of Guillermo Erades' playful, meditative debut novel, Back to Moscow, for Litro Magazine
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Sunday 17 April 2016
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
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Saturday 2 April 2016
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
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Monday 22 February 2016
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:
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