1887, the American West, and fourteen-year-old Tin Cat just wants to find his mother. That is, if he can remember how he lost her.
I write things down for GQ, Wired, Esquire, and more. Big fan of Annie Proulx, Graham Greene, Angela Carter. My previous novel The Lion and The Unicorn (Unbound, 2021) was put forward for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
A Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novelist, working in the open. The making of the books, the parts that got cut, and the things writers aren't supposed to say.
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