Where Therese Lloyd puts silly questions to Nick Ascroft and gets even sillier answers...What is your greatest fear?I like the idea that my fears are great. Other people might call me a coward and thi…

Amy Brown’s new poetry collection Neon Daze was published this month. It’s been six years since her last book, the remarkable and brilliant epic poem The Odour of Sanctity. A lot has happened for Amy…

I first met Rose in Shanghai in 2016. I was studying Chinese there and Rose was on her big China trip—the very same trip mentioned in this book. I’d gotten a Facebook message from Eamonn, a mutual fri…

When I was working on this book with Nick I quickly figured out that if I wanted Nick to change something, I just had to say, ‘This could be funnier’ and he would change it. This is how I got him to r…

I’ve been told that a launch speech should be very short and that its plot should move quickly to its climax at which point I find an original and witty way to say buy this book. So here is the crux.…