One of my favourite novels of 2021 was Sarvat Hasin's underrated The Giant Dark, a feminist rock n roll retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Here's my piece for Books of the Year in Review 31

Isabel Waidner's Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold is a thrilling, seditious headrush of a novel. Here's my review in the Guardian

I reviewed Address Book, Neil Bartlett's masterly collection of queer short stories, in the Literary Review

Here's my take on Joshua Cohen's wincingly funny, counter-factual take on the family history of Israel's longest-serving prime minister, The Netanyahus, in the TLS

 I wrote about Jarred McGinnis's brutally funny and honest debut novel The Coward in the Guardian

My second radio play, The Rival, will go out on Sunday 27th June at 7.30pm on Radio 3. It's about how Shakespeare came to write the Sonnets, and has a stellar cast plus great production, direction and sound design from Jeremy Mortimer and the Reduced Listening team. It will be available on Iplayer for 30 days. Do please listen here

David Peace's immersive and compelling Tokyo Trilogy reaches its conclusion with Tokyo Redux, perhaps the best of the three novels Here's my piece in the Literary Review