I'm appearing at The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, with Rose Tremain, Louis de Bernieres and Hilton Pashley for the 'Norfolk Authors in Profile' event in this year's Hostry Festival.
I'm participating in the International Festival of Literature and Translation (FILIT) in Iasi, Romania, with Herta Muller, David Vann, Sadie Jones, and numerous Romanian and other European writers.
I'm appearing at the UEA 50th Anniversary Literary Festival with Naomi Alderman, hosted by Christopher Bigsby.
I'm participating in the 1st International Conference in Creative Writing in Athens, organised by the University of Western Macedonia, with Anthony Caleshu of Plymouth University, Robin Hemley of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, Lan Samantha Chang of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Hervé Le Tellier of OULIPO, and many others.
Worthless Men has been shortlisted in the Fiction category of the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards.
I'm participating as a writer-in-residence at the International Translation Autumn School at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India.
Worthless Men is published in paperback by Sceptre on August 1st.
I’m teaching a ‘Starting to Write Fiction’ course with my wife Lynne Bryan at Cubertou in South West France.
I'm participating in a week of discussions at the Worlds Literature Festival hosted by UEA and Writers' Centre Norwich.
I’m participating in the Sozopol Fiction Seminar in Bulgaria with Elizabeth Kostova, Richard Russo, Richard Beard, Kapka Kassabova, and numerous other Bulgarian, British and American writers.