Delighted to report that Lamb is now available as an audiobook from W.F. Howes. Jump in for nine-and-a-bit hours of mossy, melancholy weirdness, narrated in perfect northern by the wonderful Jonathan Keeble. Listen on Audible, Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get yours.

Christopher Priest, one of our most important writers, has died.  I met and came to know Chris through my friendship with his wife, Nina. Over the last ten years, the two of them have been comrades and occasional mentors; I have often said that without their combined influence, I would not be taking my writing…

After lots of Lamb-related events in October and early November, I’m using this week to take stock and be thankful. For me, publishing a novel is always a weird experience: exciting, exposing, relieving, and surreal. And as various processes wind down, you’re left with a tiny thread of loss, a lot of gratitude, then a…

My new novel Lamb is out today from the mighty Dead Ink Books. You can pick up a copy direct from Dead Ink, or through their snazzy new bookshop website. Or you can grab it anywhere else you like to buy your books (ideally your local independent!). There’s a proper blurb for the book over…

Beyond chuffed to share that Liverpool-based Dead Ink Books will publish my fifth novel Lamb this October, and another novel in 2025. Here’s the announcement in The Bookseller. I’ve admired Dead Ink since reading Naomi Booth’s brilliant Sealed – a novel that manages to make a horrifying apocalypse feel scarily intimate – and feel very…

I recently joined running coach, yoga teacher and mountain leader Jen Scotney to record an episode of Resilience Rising, a podcast that digs into what it means to be resilient, or at least to fail, or succeed, or both.  We chatted about the trials and strange affirmations of (traditional) publishing, dealing with tricksy one-star reviews, the…

Forthcoming from PS Publishing is the first in a new anthology series inspired by the infamous New Worlds magazine of the 1960s and 70s. The book packs in fresh stories from Alan Moore, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Moorcock himself. It also includes my post-floods short ‘The Gridge’, which was written in late 2019, before… all…

It’s hard to quantify this year in reading, or writing, or things watched. Those things definitely happened, just not with much intent. In fact our spring and early summer were spent in stasis, the first wave experienced mainly through the lens of my day job, and everything else paused, slowed or abandoned. We’ve been fortunate…

Pleased as anything to write that Zero Bomb has been shortlisted for the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction. It’s in the open category, in some ridiculously good company. “This is such an odd and unsettling time to be reading through so much speculative fiction,” said Dan Rockmore, director of the Neukom Institute…

A post to mark something other than this hellish, world-changing pandemic, and the UK now being in loose quarantine: The Breach, my fourth novel, is published in world English territories by those superstars at Titan Books today. A very happy end to an instructive, annoying, fulfilling and occasionally cursed five-plus-year project that’s tripped me up…