With echoes of Dickens, Jules Verne and Toni Morrison, Esi Edugyan's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Washington Black, is an extraordinary feat of imagination. Here's my review for the TLS

I reviewed Caoilinn Hughes's ambitious, picaresque debut novel, Orchid and the Wasp, for the TLS

Donal Ryan’s From a Low and Quiet Sea is my favourite to win the The Man Booker Prize 2018 (along with Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room). Here’s my piece in the Literary Review

Very proud that The Moth magazine have published my story 'Famous Last' in their summer issue. Order here

A new short story in the venerable Honest Ulsterman. Read 'Blood Blister' here

I reviewed Rachel Kushner's blistering new novel, The Mars Room, set in a Californian women's prison, for the i-Paper

Benjamin Markovits's new novel, A Weekend in New York, is a quiet wonder. Here's my piece for the Literary Review