I’m delighted that The Humans has been chosen as The City Reads book for 2015! City Reads is an annual citywide reading festival which aims to spread a love of books and ideas to the widest possible audience throughout Brighton & Hove. There’s so much going on around the city- see […]
15 year-old Brennig Davies from Wales won the first-ever BBC Young Writers’ Award with Book Trust for his story ‘Skinning’. I was totally bowled over by it. Even among a strong shortlist it stood out for its sheer confidence of style and subject. It had all the judges (Alice Levine, […]
I do hope to meet some of you at one of these events this year: Friday 23rd October, 6.30pm, Dundee Literary Festival Sunday 1st November, 5pm , City Reads final event, The Old Market Hove, tickets Friday 13th November, 9pm, Crossing Border Festival, Netherlands, with Erik Jan Harmens and interviewed by Jasper Henderson, tickets Saturday 14th […]
SOME THOUGHTS ON PRIVILEGE Okay, this is a long post. You don’t have to read it. It’s about my thoughts on empathy and privilege and what we are allowed to discuss and not discuss, and whether – in certain cases – political correctness has – against all odds – gone […]
I am one of the Costa Book Award judges this year. The Costa Book Awards is the only major UK book prize that is open solely to authors resident in the UK and Ireland and also, uniquely, recognises the most enjoyable books across five categories – First Novel, Novel, Biography, […]