Why it’s time for a Hopkins revival
Here’s the text of a blog I wrote for Foyles on why next year’s centenary of Hopkins’ first publication will be an excellent time to...
What really happened on the Deutschland?
Hopkins gave the nuns a heroic role in his poem but the real truth, as eyewitness accounts made clear, is more prosaic. Here's the text...
The lure of Rome
Here's a video I made for Digital Pride, explaining the attraction of Roman Catholicism for Victorian men like Hopkins who found...
Only got a minute?
Then watch my 60-second trailer – I tell a lie, it's actually 61 seconds – explaining what The Hopkins Conundrum is all about. Thanks to...
Lightning strikes at the Gherkin
As publication nears for The Hopkins Conundrum, it was great to take part in my publisher's launch event for this summer’s fiction...
Yes, judge a book by its cover – but which one?
Today we sent the proof copies of The Hopkins Conundrum to be printed – which was an exciting moment because it meant we had finalised...
In the footsteps of Dame Muriel
I’m not the first novelist inspired by The Wreck of the Deutschland. I hadn’t realised it when I started out, but I’m following in the...
Tim’s big idea
There are three narrative strands in The Hopkins Conundrum, two historical and one contemporary. In this extract from the contemporary...
My day on the ‘Deutschland’
How a day on Brunel’s SS Great Britain in dry dock in Bristol helped me set the scene for my novel about Gerard Manley Hopkins and the...
The site of the wreck
YESTERDAY we went to Whitstable, the ancient fishing port on the North Kent coast which has been famous for its oysters since Roman...
