Sunday, 17 April 2016

David Szalay's new book All That Man Is (not quite a novel, not quite a collection of short stories) is stunning, and represents the kind of fiction that's become harder to find these days. Here's my review for the Spectator

Saturday, 2 April 2016

The good people at Litro ran another story of mine back in February. Set on the Eurostar to Paris, 'The Invisible Ones' can be read here



Tuesday, 1 March 2016

My piece on Graham Swift's brilliant novella Mothering Sunday in the current Literary Review


Monday, 22 February 2016

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:


Monday, 21 December 2015



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

Sunday, 15 November 2015

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