I've read a lot this year, including around 400 short stories for the Manchester Fiction Prize in the first few months of 2022. As a writer it's often hard for me to switch off the critical/analytical part of my brain when reading, so finding the right book to read in bed before sleep can be …
Tag: novels
in Time Out 20 years ago
Nicholas Royle wrote some lovely words about my writing in Time Out back in 1996, as part of a feature profiling four up-and-coming London writers. I'm still not there yet (wherever 'there' may be) but the support of people like Nicholas Royle is what keeps most writers (wherever they are) plugging away. My novel The …
Hilaire 