The Tideline: a letter from me, once a month
On the first Sunday of every month I write to readers about what I am working on, the books I loved and where I will be reading next. It is free, it is the only email you will get from me, and you can leave with one click.
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In every letter
What I am writing
How the next book is going, honestly, including the bad weeks. Tidewrack readers will get its first chapter in March, three months before it is out.
What I am reading
Three books I loved that month, old and new, and why. No affiliate links; buy them from a bookshop.
Where I will be
New readings and festival dates near you, a week before they are announced anywhere else.
Recent letters
What went out lately.
Gull House in nine languages, and the cover of the next one
The first look at the Tidewrack cover, a dispatch from a festival in Enugu, and the three books I could not stop reading this month.
Two hundred pages and a very bad week
How the new novel is going (honestly), a recipe for the soup in Small Hours, and new reading dates for the autumn.
On swimming, and on stopping
A letter from the coast, the paperback’s first reviews from book clubs, and a question for you about endings.