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.…

My favourite image in this book is of a figurehead in the shape of a woman on the front of a huge salty ship. The woman is pressing ahead through the ocean while being pelted with bugs. She is serene…