Articles and Interviews
- Radio and TV
- Selected recent articles
- Selected press interviews
- Short Fiction and Excerpts
Writing and interviews from the more remote past are archived variously on the Internet.
Radio and TV
- Programme on Lawrence Durrell January 2013
- Interview with Radio Litopia, July 2012
- Interview on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, July 2012
- Interview on Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, April 2012
- Interview on Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3, January 2012
- Crunch Festival, Hay-on-Wye, November 2011, 'How to Change the World: Art and Politics'
- Crunch Festival, Hay-on-Wye, November 2011, 'Awake in the Universe' - Can Art awake us from our slumbers?
- Interview on Open Book, BBC Radio 4, June 2011
- HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye 2011, 'The New Romantics'
- HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye 2011, 'The Famine and the Feast'
- Interview on Open Book, BBC Radio 4, January 2011
Selected recent articles
- 'Diary', Spectator January 2013
- 'Homage to the Goddess Mother', Spectator November 2012
- 'May We Be Forgiven,' Literary Review October 2012
- 'Things Fall Apart' - the novels of Enrique Vila-Matas, New Yorker, September 2012
- 'The Pinecone,' Telegraph, September 2012
- 'My Friend the Freak,' Untitled Books September 2012
- 'The London Games,' American Prospect July 2012
- 'The Wanderings of a Contented Generation,' Guardian July 2012
- 'Names for the Sea,' Literary Review July 2012
- 'The Sin of Laughter,' Writer's Hub July 2012
- 'You have Nothing to Lose but Your USP!' Huffington Post June 2012
- 'Squashing the Toad' Huffington Post May 2012
- 'Inflated Dreams,' Spectator March 2012
- 'An Honourable Man,' Literary Review March 2012
- 'New Finnish Grammar,' Literary Review October 2011
- 'All That I Am,' Observer September 2011
- 'Heroes of the Ice Age,' Spectator August 2011
- 'Pseudonymously Yours' - the work of John Banville, New Yorker July 2011
- 'Taboo and Danger,' Guardian July 2011
- 'The Trail Goes Cold,' Spectator April 2011
- 'Home Births,' Observer January 2011
- 'In Deep Trouble,' Spectator November 2010
- 'Author Author,' Guardian June 2010
- 'Ms Hempel,' Guardian April 2010
Selected press interviews
- Interview with the Guardian, July 2012
- Interview on Female First July 2012
- Interview on Book Oxygen June 2012
- Interview with Literateur August 2011
- Interview with Bookmunch May 2011
- Interview with the Guardian June 2010
- Podcast with the Guardian, June 2010
- Interview with PSB, 'Need to Know,' June 2010
- Interview with the Oxford Times June 2010
- Interview with Reuters, May 2010
- Interview on The Thought Fox April 2010
- Interview with the Guardian June 2008
- Interview with the Guardian June 2008
- Interview with the Independent June 2008
- Interview with Booktrust January 2008
Short Fiction and Excerpts
- 'Cassandra White is not a virtuous widow' - excerpt from Come to the Edge published by Litro June 2012
- 'Barthelme' - short story commissioned by the Guardian, April 2011
- 'The Hermit' - excerpt from The Birth of Love June 2010
- 'Clocking Off' - excerpt from Inglorious published in the Guardian June 2008
- 'Only the Past is Immortal' - excerpt from The Ice Museum published in the Guardian August 2005