Friday, 19 May 2017

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



Tuesday, 9 May 2017

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

Monday, 27 March 2017

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

Thursday, 23 March 2017

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

Thursday, 9 March 2017

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

 

Thursday, 2 March 2017

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

  • Thursday, 26 January 2017

    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