May 22nd. Reading at Bloomsbury Institute
My first reading in the UK in 12 years will be with Esther Freud and Andrea Stewart at the Bloomsbury Institute on Tuesday, May 22nd at 6pm. The event is in association with Granta. Tickets are...
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Welcome to my first blog-post. In these posts I hope to document what I’m reading and writing and – given that it’s taken me twelve years to complete my latest novel – communicate a little more...
View ArticleTwelve years, one reading
My ex-US editor (from “The Pope’s Rhinoceros”), a college friend I hadn’t seen for twenty years, my agent…. Last night’s reading from “John Saturnall’s Feast” (my first since publishing “In the Shape...
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I will be signing galleys, meeting readers and generally hanging out on the Grove stand at Books Expo America (BEA) in New York on June 5 at 11am. More details here. See you there!
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Barefoot through America I
America is a large and populous country whose people are known for their outgoing and welcoming disposition. Nevertheless on a book tour you tend to spend most of your time alone and so, because I’ve...
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Barefoot through America II
Delta Airlines, which flies me from Chicago’s O Hare airport to Atalanta, Georgia then down to Jackson, Mississippi, is staffed by the cheeriest flight attendants in the United States. ‘We’re going...
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Barefoot through America III
By my rough calculation, two transatlantic flights and just under a dozen jaunts within the States add up to something over 10,000 miles. Judge no man before you’ve walked a mile in his shoes, runs the...
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Jaipur Literature Festival, 2013
The Dalai Lama waves his arms in happy disregard of the microphone clipped to his scarlet robes. Amplified crunches and thuds boom out over the thousand-strong crowd gathered under the pink awning on...
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Moscow
Cold winds, queues, toothless beggars and drunks…. Yes, I’m back in London after a four day visit to Moscow, my first, tentative dip of the toe into the ocean that is Russia. The occasion was the...
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