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