Writer of stuff. Owned by a cat.
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I've a story in this beauty! Very proud of it.
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I'm so glad I stayed up for Truss. It was a beautiful piece of comedy, from the impatient slow clapping when she tried to avoid getting on stage, to her glazed refusal to speak afterwards. Everything I wanted it to be.
For the last few years I've been working on this show, Constellation, created by the wonderful Peter Harness - and it's finally dropping tomorrow on Apple TV+. It's a bonkers sci-fi folk horror thriller, and biased as I am, I think it's rather good.
"Head-spinningly spectacular!" The seven best shows to stream this week... #Constellation theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
Wonderful evening at the British Museum, the absolute highlight being a storytelling performance of Greek myths by @SallyPommeStory that was funny, moving and transformative. An absolute joy!
A year ago I set myself a ridiculous task - to read every single Booker nominee, all 700 or so of them, and chronicle my misadventures. 135 books in, top of the heap for me still is A S Byatt's Possession, as perfect a novel as can be. I'm so sorry to hear she has passed.
It was an enormous privilege to provide the introduction for Alphaland, the new story collection from dazzling Spanish writer Cristina Jurado @dnazproject - utterly transformative, beguiling and beautiful fictions that will change the way you see the world.
ALPHALAND & OTHER STORIES is out!
Thanks to @RobertShearman for his lovely intro & @SueBurkeSpain @InesGalianoT @molo_writes, James Womack for the translations. Cover art by @VinceHaig
Thought-provoking, erotic, dark. Otherness is the idea
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Mr Fezziwig, my rescue cat with attitude, tells me he was under the impression every day was International Cat Day.
The joke’s on him, because tomorrow morning he’s back cleaning chimneys.
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That morning you check out the new Doctor Who Magazine, and realise your wife is forever going to be known as a green hermaphroditic hexapod.
I just think it's a disgrace that this production of Great Expectations means that all previous film and TV adaptations have been erased, and that the words in each and every copy of the novel have been lost to us forever. If even only one other version had survived. Tragic.
Brand new translation of one of my short stories here in Spanish - for those of you who like to read Spanish, and for those of you who like to read weird tragicomic tales about cats reciting Greek epic poetry.
Ya está disponible nuestro #23 en @lektu con portada de Nieves Mories.
lektu.com/l/supersonic-magaz…
New Year ego boost!
I also read a magnificent short story "The dark space in the house in the house in the garden at the centre of the Earth" by @ShearmanRobert today and I'm going to be thinking about it for quite a while. Never read anything quite like it, and I read a lot.
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And a genuinely bemusing Christmas present, for anyone so inclined. Just saying!
This is just great! Three big books of stories that are actually one big book. You choose a path through, the theory being that what you read before influences how you think about what you read next. Not for the fainthearted.
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Strongly recommended if you want a very different sort of Dickensian Christmas treat!
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Having a wonderful time in Barcelona as a guest at the Festival de Generes Fantastics - promoting my Spanish books, gazing at cathedrals, and being allowed to say silly stuff on stage.
Me and the guys have had a word - and we've decided to disband the Anti-Growth Coalition. Now that Liz Truss is out of power, it seems the fairest thing to do. So next Monday evening's meeting is cancelled. We'll just go to the pub instead.
A free event hosted by Lincoln University next week - if you're in the area, and fancy laughs, chills, and underlying weirdness!
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