My Writing Process I’m usually excited on a writing day. I’ll eat something quickly, make a cup of coffee, check that I’m warm enough, and then lock myself into the...

By late spring 2018 I had begun work with my friend Feargal Ward on a film about Peter Rice, an important Irish structural engineer who helped design and construct buildings...

If you’ve ever gorged yourself on food – anything from an exquisite eight course Michelin-starred dinner to a huge salty bag of fish and chips – and then vomited it...

In mid January my fourth collection, The Boatman and Other Stories, was published by Jonathan Cape to some of the best reviews I’ve ever had. It’s been a long road....

When I tell people, especially fellow writers, that I’ve completed The Watsons, one of Austen’s unfinished novels, the reaction has mostly been either laughter or an eyebrow arch that rises...

Sitting down to write this piece about my writing journey, has brought refection on how far I have come. Not only as a writer but as a person! The confidence...

Skin is a story about a woman, Natalie, who struggles with binge eating and anxiety and is spurred to travel to ‘find herself,’ literally and metaphorically. We see her journey...

Book 2 was actually Book 1. Night Swimming, out this month, was the first proper, finished, fully formed novel that I wrote. My Buried Life, which celebrates its fourth revolution...

My mentor was a Beat Poet and he had a peculiar affinity for the ‘strange familiar’. Along Exchequer Street, where I sit under two sound systems, my life—so far—is strange...

Saltwater is a fictional novel with roots in my own experiences. I have always liked thinking about the tiny details that make up a life; the Kiwi shoe polish my...