Politically engaged new fiction? Here's my review of Guillermo Erades' playful, meditative debut novel, Back to Moscow, for Litro Magazine

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

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

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

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