Here are my thoughts on Clare Morrall's new dystopian novel, When the Floods Came, for the Spectator.

A splendid time was had by all at the launch of Structo magazine issue 15, at the Albion Beatnik bookshop in Oxford on Saturday night. I read, alongside contributors who included short story writers Paula Hunter and Dan Micklethwaite. Here's editing supremo Euan Monaghan introducing Paula (and the event) below:

Here's my piece on Karine Tuil's urgent, sadly prescient The Age of Reinvention in December's Literary Review

My review of Jonathan Coe's terrific new novel, Number 11, asks whether satire is all laughed-out. Read it here.

Margate One-Day Lit Fest

 It was two weeks ago now, but a great day was had at the Margate Bookie One-Day Lit Fest, courtesy of supremo Andreas Loizou. I read from Byron Easy, along with Richard Skinner, Samantha Ellis, Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Andrea Bennett, and Andreas himself. Also reading were Faber Academy graduates Hanife Melbourne, Tam Hoskyns, Paul Dornan and Alex Catherwood. Good fish n chips too . . . Here's to Margate Bookie 2016.

More Margate info here.

Divine Correspondence

Very pleased that Litro magazine published another short story of mine - this time in their current print edition. Or read it online here.

Mickey Sabbath, Philip Roth's supernova of sin

I really enjoyed writing this piece for the Guardian's Baddies in Books series.