I'm an Oxford University creative writing tutor, novelist and book reviewer.
I teach on the Oxford University MSt, Undergraduate Diploma and Online courses as well as the OPUS and Stanford creative writing programmes. I’m interested in both the close examination of fiction and how recent technologies such as ebooks and print-on-demand are changing the publishing industry and offering fresh opportunities to writers.
My first novel The Lock was published in 2003 and my journalism has appeared in various publications since 1995. (Read my review of Remember Me by Melvyn Bragg for the Times.)
I studied English at Keble College, Oxford and am a member of the Society of Authors. I am chair of Writers in Oxford and edited the Oxford Writer from 2002-2004.
I'm also a librarian at the Taylor Institution and Modern Languages Faculty libraries, Oxford.
I live in west Oxfordshire.
My second novel, Invisible, is now available from Borders Oxford, Amazon (.co.uk, .com) as well as other bookshops and online retailers (ISBN 978-1-84923-104-6). The novel was launched in a 'bridge' edition on 19th February 2009 and will be published by StreetBooks in 2010 (see Invisible -- and Publishing to download StreetBooks .pdf of Invisible Part One)
