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 […]
New book
Exciting news! My next novel, The Afterlives of Dr Gachet, will be published 1st July. I can’t wait. It’s a novel about the man in the painting here, and the story behind his famous heartbroken expression… More details coming soon! Right now my summer book tour is being finalised. Get in touch if you’ve got any ideas for events in your […]
Research: Chasing Happiness
Everyone knows what happiness feels like, right? But how does a writer catch those fleeting moments of joy, pleasure, and bliss in writing? That’s the question I explore in my latest research article, published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Could it be that happiness in […]