I’m excited to be part of Leeds Lit Fest this year. I’ll be leading two workshops this Friday (6th March, … More
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How the Light Gets In longlisted for the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize
Absolutely thrilled that my short story collection, How the Light Gets In, has made the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist. … More
Online Creative Writing Course in 2019
I’m excited to announce that in 2019 I’ll be teaching a voice-driven fiction course as part of Spread the Word‘s … More
All the Good Things won a Betty Trask Award
A few weeks ago Stephen Fry handed me a Betty Trask Award in a huge envelope and told me to … More
All the Good Things is on the Betty Trask shortlist
Thrilled that All the Good Things has been shortlisted for the 2018 Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors:
Book Launch(es), Actual Holdable Books & Other Larks…
Today, some four years after I began to write it, I held my short story collection, How the Light Gets … More
All the Good Things is out in paperback
All the Good Things is out in paperback as of 5th April. Here is a lovely table of the critters … More
How to Write a Novel workshop at The Bowery this April
I’m looking forward to teaching another How to Write a Novel workshop at The Bowery, Leeds on Sunday 15th April, after … More
What I’m up to in 2018
Book-wise, the paperback of my debut novel, All the Good Things, will be out in April and my collection of … More
‘A Sparky and Unsettling Debut’: All the Good Things reviewed in The Guardian
All the Good Things has been reviewed by Gerard Woodward in The Guardian. He describes it as a ‘sparky and … More
