Communion Town was longlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize. It’s a slipstream novel-in-linked-short-stories about a kaleidoscopic city where genre and reality keep shifting. The New York Times Book Review saw it as a book about ‘the complexity of consciousness itself’.

Jott is a novel set in and around a psychiatric hospital in the 1930s. It’s about the friendship between a young doctor and a modernist writer, and about how we define sanity and madness. The Guardian called it ‘endlessly thought-provoking’, and it was shortlisted for the 2019 Encore Prize.

Whirlwind Romance, a collection of weird stories, was described by the Dublin Review of Books as ‘blazingly unique and shot through with illuminating shards of insight’. It was longlisted for the 2023 Edge Hill Prize.