I wrote about the overwhelmingly positive response (& the valid criticism) to the announcement of Conduit Books in this week's Bookseller

A Substack post for May. Read Confessions of a Collector: On Being a 1970s Movie Obsessive for free here

Here's an interesting piece about Conduit Books that interviews three early career male novelists - Derek Owusu, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert & Leo Robson - in GQ Magazine

Here's my review of Ben Markovits's quietly enthralling, middle-aged road-trip novel, The Rest of Our Lives, in the Spectator

The launch of my new small press CONDUIT BOOKS has so far been covered by the Guardian (twice), the Times, the Telegraph, the Bookseller, Radio 4 and the French literary magazine Actualitté. Read and listen here:

The Guardian 28th April 2025

The Times 29th April 2025

The Guardian 2nd May 2025

Radio 4 PM with Evan Davis (at 23.50) 29th April 2025

Acutalitté 4th May 2025

Exciting news. I've started a small press called CONDUIT BOOKS, publishing literary fiction and memoir, focussing (initially) on male authors. Submissions open 1st-31st May. Do please send work to the Conduit Books website. Read the Bookseller piece here

Latest Substack: I wrote about seeing a double-bill of Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun at the Aylesbury Odeon as a nine-year-old... And then rereading all the Ian Fleming Bond books again forty years later, with some unexpected results. Read A Cup of Mud for free here