[T]he weird, and its capacity to alienate, matters. At its best it stops being a fantastical escapism and loosens our grip on our own realities just enough to let a new one in. As Harrison puts it in Wish I Was Here: “The weird is a way of writing about the real.” Seek out the weird. [ ]
The End of Everything on BBC R4 Take 4 Books, this Sunday 16th, at 16:00. Tune in and have a listen to me James Crawford chatting about the book and three of its many indirect precursors. Lots of other events to come, beginning with this pivotal point on the Magical Mystery Tour on the [ ]
A care package from New York. Nice to find myself back in the USA, at Riverhead, under the umbrella of Penguin Random House and in company like this. The End of Everything publishes on 13th October 2026. More details as I have them. Addendum: Funnily enough, Jynne Dilling, VP Deputy Publisher at Riverhead, a [ ]
Great audience at Foyles Charing Cross Road yesterday evening for a gig with the magisterial Chris Power. We enjoyed ouselves we hope you did too. Some well-known faces very familiar ones. The 6th floor at Foyles has become one of my safe spaces, so thanks guys. Thanks Chris, everyone who came to [ ]
In a post-apocalyptic Britain, haunted by strange lifeforms called iGhetti and cut off from mainland Europe by fog, people flock to boats to emigrate. Money has failed. The fabric of reality has changed. There is full-on body horror here, but the deepest terror of the novel is in how perfectly it conjures a general epistemological [ ]
BookHaus, Bristol, Tuesday 14th July. Warm sunny, crowds watching the football late into the evening. I had a glass or two of wine to celebrate to myself the changes of the last few years.
We ve had a very satisfying three weeks since launch, with through-the-tills sales figures that made us gasp and which propelled the book into the top ten of the Times Bestseller list an event previously missing from the fifty year timeline of my so-called career. Much of this has been due to work put in by the [ ]
Blackwell s on Bridge St Edinburgh, Thursday night. Nina Allan chairs; I say the words explanatory collapse a lot; a great night is thus ensured for all. Later we go to the Italian restaurant that used to be one of RLS s favourite drinking holes, where I lose my favourite signing pen, Nina finds out that she s [ ]