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Man Booker Longlist: Swimming Home – Deborah Levy

Part of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Longlist Series. On the surface the Booker longlisted Swimming Home is another study of middle-class woes set in a really rather nice Provencal villa in the hills...

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‘Speaking as a businessman’ Lightning Rods – Helen DeWitt

‘It’s not for me to make moral judgements. I’m a businessman. I deal with people as they are, not as they ought to be.’ When I explained the plot of Lightning Rods to my wife she was horrified. That...

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And Other Stories Short Story Competition

Publisher And Other Stories (Reviews: Swimming Home, Lightning Rods) ran a 500-word short story competition with the theme of ‘walking’ last month inspired by their release Zbinden’s Progress. I’m...

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My Second-Place Short Story

And Other Stories have posted my short story, which came second in their 500-word story competition on the theme of walking. I realise now that I should have given it a title.

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Best of 2012: My These Little Words Guest Post

These Little Words has posted my selection of a few of my favourite books of 2012. I’ve enjoyed an awful lot of books this year, so this list is by no means exhaustive.

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