Been in Berlin a lot this autumn, enjoying its lakes and lively goings on. I love this tale of one house and its special story, here’s my piece for The Daily Telegraph

Had a really enjoyable time yesterday talking at Bloomsbury Literary Festival about my newest book, Lido. It was an online event but that meant more of you could listen in, and from outside of London too. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket and asked a question and thanks to the Festival for inviting me.…

My newest book Lido is finally published by Batsford in the UK and you can buy it now from all good brick and mortar bookstores (get down to you local independent!) as well as all the usual online retailers too. It’s also published around the world under the title Pool. If you can get over…

Lido is out in the UK on Aug 6 and it was covered in The Sunday Times this week.

Alas Birmingham’s mac will be closed until 2021 so my event with Catherine O’Flynn showing Birmingham on screen will now be happening at the rescheduled TV festival next year. Likewise the Q&A with Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee for King Rocker will also be put back to 2021. Watch this space.

I was due to host an evening of TV clips set in Birmingham with my literary heroine Catherine O’Flynn on May 19, but that has been postponed. Fear not thought, we will be doing it as part of mac‘s Festival of TV in the autumn – dates to be revealed soon. I’ll also be doing…

The current sh*tshow we’re living through has at least given me the opportunity to begin writing a new non fiction book. Building Dreams is a deep dive into various architectural dreams, fantasies and incomplete projects that defined the optimistic era of modernism that swept the world. The book will by published by Batsford, probably in…

My book Lido is finished and will be published around the world in August. You can pre-order from independent bookshops or Waterstones in the UK. In the US, Australasia and Europe the book will be titled Pool. You can pre-order it from places like Dymocks in Australia and Amazon in the US. We will be…

I went to Brooklyn for The Telegraph

A piece I wrote on the anniversary of the ‘Mauerfall’ for The I Newspaper