Good review
On the Holloway Road got a nice review from a fellow writer and blogger, Helen J Beal. I found it particularly encouraging because she hates travelogues and Kerouac, so could have been expected to hate my book! Anyway, the site…
New publication: Quarter Passed
I’ve got an essay included in the new book Quarter Passed, published in the USA by Twenty Stories Publishing. It’s a compilation of stories, essays, poems and photographs by twenty-somethings from around the world (27 countries to be precise). I…
Tonight on the Holloway Road
I’m gettin ready for a talk at Islington North library, just off the Holloway Road, tonight at 6:30pm. I’m a bit nervous to be meeting people who probably know the Holloway Road a lot better than I do. Hope I…
Review in Notes from the Underground
My agent just spotted a great little review of my book in the latest issue of Notes from the Underground:
Hornsey Library event
Thanks to the kind prompting from May, I am finally getting around to writing about my talk and book signing at Hornsey Library last week. Even though it was my local library, I was a bit worried about how many…
Reviewed in the Daily Mail
My first review in a national newspaper! Victoria Moore reviewed On the Holloway Road in the Daily Mail. It’s only a short review, along with two other debut novels, but I like what she wrote. Here’s an excerpt: There are…
Mention in Time Out
My book got a small spot in this week’s Time Out, in the “Battle of the Books” feature…
On the Holloway Road on the Holloway Road
I went to do a stock signing at Blackwell’s on the Holloway Road last week. It was great to see the book on sale on the Holloway Road itself. The store manager Kevin Molloy was a really nice guy, too…