Alex Preston's fourth novel is an enormously enjoyable slice of 18th-century historical fiction set among the smugglers' coves of England's South Coast. Read my review of Winchelsea in the Literary Review

I wrote about twins in literature and popular culture, from The Comedy of Errors to contemporary fiction, in the TLS

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