Coming next: a comedy about Thomas Gainsborough
I live very close to the Suffolk birthplace of the artist Thomas Gainsborough, and I‘ve come to know his work well. A curiosity about his...
‘Interesting and funny’
Here’s a short review in the September edition of Attitude magazine
Hell and back
This is a Q&A I did with Bury & West Suffolk magazine about The Hurtle of Hell, my move to Suffolk, and my next fiction project...
‘Inclusive, funny and heretical. Burn it or read it’
Another nice review of The Hurtle of Hell, from Eric Page in Gscene magazine.
‘A clever and enchanting fable of self-discovery’
Here’s a fantastic review of The Hurtle of Hell in The Lady. ‘Part philosophical quest, part redemptive religious exploration, this is an...
Honouring Harold Kingsley Edge
My great uncle, Lance Corporal Harold Kingsley Edge, died at the Battle of Cambrai in northern France on 1 December 1917. He was twenty....
The family link between Hopkins and Gainsborough
The other night I talked about and read from The Hopkins Conundrum in Sudbury, Suffolk, as a guest of Gainsborough’s House art gallery....
Hopkins, Gladstone and The Hopkins Conundrum
At the annual Monasterevin Hopkins festival in County Kildare, Ireland, earlier this month, the leading Hopkins scholar Dr Norman White...
North Wales in the footsteps of Hopkins
Here’s a blog I wrote for the website TripFiction about the real-life locations for The Hopkins Conundrum. On a good day, the North Wales...
The Wreck of the Deutschland: a new recording
When I appeared on Edward Stourton's Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4, I was asked to read the first stanza of The Wreck. After the...
