Category: Books

• A Pleasant Surprise

  Jun 26

  Was pleasantly surprised to learn that my novel Ex-Members is one of the finalists for this year’s Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The book’s in great company, alongside work… more ›

• Read Wolfe Read

  Feb 20

  Ages ago I picked Gene Wolfe’s Free Live Free for a book group I was in at the time and then utterly failed to read the book when it came… more ›

• Taught a course this week.

  Feb 3

  This week I made my way to Frenchtown, NJ to teach a class at Frenchtown Bookshop. I’m eternally grateful to the store’s owner and the attendees for being understanding when… more ›

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, But Occult

  Dec 27

  “A few days after he had sent the Cuxa postcard, he read her some chapters from the autobiography of Michael Ashman, a minor travel writer who had walked across Europe… more ›