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I planned to do a monthly round up of everything I’ve been reading but the weeks since the end of January kind of got away from me. However here it is…
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With the sad news of the passing of Hilary Mantel, people began exchanging stories of their meetings with her. A picture quickly developed of someone…
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Archives Series: Vol 1. First published in Gutter 6, Spring 2012.
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March was an eclectic month reading-wise. I didn’t think I was going to get much done as my work plate overfloweth but it turned out I needed that down…
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So that’s been a year (thirteen months, technically) of my Substack adventures and I’d tentatively say it’s been a success. There have been a few…
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I’ve had to split this into two because of restrictions on email size (it’s the pictures, rather than the text, before you panic), so I’ve roughly…
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So first of all the where. In The Empty Places was an anthology I co-edited back in 2016 with the aim of raising funds and awareness for Bantuan Coffee…
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Originally published in 川柳塔 March 2020
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This was one of the first pieces of fiction I wrote when I moved to Japan that actually engaged with my surroundings. I kept a blog almost daily, and I…
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Books of the year. Technically, novels of the year. I was going to do lists for poetry and non-fiction, as well as fiction, but I read about a dozen…
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This is another story I think of as a window. It has minimal arcs, very little information, just a snapshot moment of two people’s lives together…
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So this is The Waves Burn Bright, my third novel. At its core is the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988, where 167 men lost their lives. It was published by…
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