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Friday 21 December 2018
Thursday 13 December 2018
My Book of the Year 2018 is Sulaiman Addonia's Silence is my Mother Tongue, a compelling novel set in a Sudanese refugee camp. Here's my piece for Review 31
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Wednesday 5 December 2018
David Keenan's Belfast-set second novel, For the Good Times, is a ferocious take on the Troubles. Here's my piece for the Literary Review
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Monday 15 October 2018
Home is the second short film of mine to be directed by Meena Ayittey. We co-wrote it and shot it two years ago, and now it's great to see it doing so well on the festival circuit. Watch the trailer here
Friday 5 October 2018
The Mechanics' Institute Review have run my short story about fathers and sons. Read 'The Last Lunch' here
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Thursday 27 September 2018
With echoes of Dickens, Jules Verne and Toni Morrison, Esi Edugyan's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Washington Black, is an extraordinary feat of imagination. Here's my review for the TLS
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Thursday 6 September 2018
Donal Ryan’s From a Low and Quiet Sea is my favourite to win the The Man Booker Prize 2018 (along with Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room). Here’s my piece in the Literary Review
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Tuesday 14 August 2018
Very proud that The Moth magazine have published my story 'Famous Last' in their summer issue. Order here
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Friday 22 June 2018
I reviewed Rachel Kushner's blistering new novel, The Mars Room, set in a Californian women's prison, for the i-Paper
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Friday 1 June 2018
Benjamin Markovits's new novel, A Weekend in New York, is a quiet wonder. Here's my piece for the Literary Review
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Friday 4 May 2018
Lionel Shriver's acerbic, provocative stories are brought together for the first time in her debut collection, Property. Here's my review for the i-paper
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Thursday 19 April 2018
Here's my review of Chris Power's compelling and memorable debut collection of short stories, Mothers, in the TLS
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Thursday 5 April 2018
Diana Evans' new novel Ordinary People is a forensic study of relationships, focussing on two couples in late noughties' London, with echoes of Zadie Smith, Richard Yates and John Updike. Here's my piece for the Literary Review
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Tuesday 13 March 2018
The essential and timely anthology Protest from Comma Press is published in paperback in April. Here's my review for Structo
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Thursday 4 January 2018
Six of the best short story collections last year were by Akhil Sharma, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, David Hayden, Joanna Walsh, Jeffrey Eugenides & William Boyd. Here's my round-up for the Spectator
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