Friday 30 August 2024

Here's my Substack essay for August. Doubling Up: The Treatment of Twins in Literature, Film & TV (first published in the TLS Jan 2022). Read it for free here







Join me and my brother, James Cook, at the Stroud Literary Festival on Saturday 9th November at 8pm, for readings and live music from his memoir, In Her Room. Tickets here









Friday 2 August 2024

Here's my latest Substack piece. What Lies Beneath: an essay about chronic pain and performing the well body. Read it for free here





I wrote about Benjamin Myers' wonderfully entertaining, Scarborough-set new novel, Rare Singles, in the Literary Review