Work in progress




Little Brown have bought my second novel, which I am busy writing. Currently untitled, it is a novel about global warming, Christian fundamentalism, spies and the collapse of Western civilisation as we know it. Publication is scheduled for Spring 2010.


Short stories

My short stories have appeared in the following anthologies:

The Time Out Book of London Walks 1
ed. Andrew White (Penguin: London, 1998)

Neon Lit: The Time Out Book of New Writing Volume 1
ed. Nicholas Royle (Quartet: London, 1998)

The Ex-Files
ed. Nicholas Royle (Quartet: London, 1998)

Dark Terrors 4
eds. David Sutton & Stephen Jones (Victor Gollancz: London, 1998)

Dark Terrors 2
eds. David Sutton & Stephen Jones (Victor Gollancz: London, 1996)

A Book of Two Halves
ed. Nicholas Royle (Victor Gollancz: London, 1996)

The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writer's Dreams
ed. Nicholas Royle (Serpent’s Tail, 1996)

Last Rites and Resurrections
ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press, 1995)



American literature

My other work about African-American literature and Civil Rights has appeared in the following academic journals:

Journal of American Studies 42, (2008)
"What does it mean to be an American?" The Dialectics of Self-Discovery in Baldwin's 'Paris Essays' (1950-61)"

European Journal of American Culture, (forthcoming)
"Integration, Transformation and the Redemption of America: The Fire Next Time and ‘A Letter From Birmingham Jail' "