The standard advice is to ‘write what you know’. In my new short story, published in the most recent issue of TEXT journal, I pick apart why that is absolute codswallop – with help from spider-like great-uncles in the attics, grand old Edwardians and hopeless romantics. Check it out here!
Professor! Professor!
Please excuse the slightly attention-grabbing headline, but here’s a link to a lovely profile of me written by one of my students for the Daily Q News website. It covers my inspirations, some of my adventures in China and the Middle East, the tricky process of transforming strange ideas into books, and of course a […]