A Christmas Day Backlisted podcast with Andy Miller, John Mitchinson, James Cook and me discussing Ian Fleming, Bond, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Listen here

One of my favourite books of the year was Tom Rachman's collection of Trump tales, Basket of Deplorables. Here's my piece for Review 31

A dirty great Big Mac of a book. My piece on UnAmerican Activities, James Miller's descent into the moronic inferno of 21st-century America, for Review 31

My review of the essential anthology, Best European Fiction 2018 from the Dalkey Archive Press in the TLS

I will be co-chairing a Dodo Ink Showcase with novelist and editor Sam Mills, at Burley Fisher Books on Wed December 13th. Speaking will be Dodo Ink authors Neil Griffiths, Seraphina Madsen, and James Miller. Do come along for mulled wine, and some daring, challenging fiction. Tickets here



https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/HGJEFD

Faith, doubt, and temptation are explored in As A God Might Be, an epic Dovstoevskian novel by Neil Griffiths. Here's my piece for Literary Review

My review of Monique Roffey's brilliant & subversive erotic novella The Tryst for the TLS

Here's my take on Fiona Mozley's Man Booker Prize-nominated debut, Elmet, in the Literary Review

Delighted that Home, the short film I co-wrote with director Meena Ayittey, is getting its first screening on Thursday 31st August 2017 at the Hackney Picture House. Do come along.



The trailer for Home can be seen here

I wrote about discovering Kawabata for the first time via a student of mine. One of those writers you don't know how you ever lived without... Here's my piece for Essay Saturday in Litro

 

I review two nightmarish dystopian novels, both from Serpent's Tail. Krasznahorkai's classic 1989 The Melancholy of Resistance, and Heinz Helle's recent second book, Euphoria. Read my piece for Review 31 here

A year on from the EU Referendum comes Anthony Cartwright's incisive Brexit novella, The Cut. My review for the Guardian here

The Nothing is Hanif Kureishi's best fiction for years. Here's my review for 3:AM Magazine

Here's my piece on Joyce Carol Oates' brilliant & capacious new novel, A Book of American Martyrs, for Literary Review

The beautifully produced Tangerine magazine have run a story of mine in their second issue. Read 'En Plein Air' here

Delighted to be longlisted for the Pin Drop RA Short Story Award 2017.  Read the full list here

Edward Docx's compelling new novel, Let Go My Hand, explores fathers and sons, mortality, and the blended family. Here's my review in the Spectator

The good people at The Stockholm Review have run a story of mine in their new issue. Read 'Tomatoes' here

The American short story renaissance continues with this collection of refugee tales, In the Country, from US-based Filipino writer, Mia Alvar. Out for a while now, I review it for Structo

Here's my review of Ross Raisin's exceptional new novel, A Natural (which explores how a secretly gay player negotiates the macho world of Premier League football), for the Guardian

 

An American short story Renaissance? Here's my review of four fierce new collections:

Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, 

April Ayers Lawson's Virgin and Other Stories, 

Roxane Gay's Difficult Women, 

Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World Literary Review

I review two strong novels exploring refugees, migration and borders - Dorit Rabinyan's All the Rivers, and Armando Lucas Correa's The German Girl - for Litro