Polarization is Killing Storytelling
Welcome to you, dear reader, but also, in a way, welcome to me. We're here at the beginning of something: my voyage into Substack, timed to coincide with my becoming a published novelist, with my debut novel, The Great Game...
Long-Time Writer, First-Time Novelist
I sold my first novel by accident. I know that's an opening sentence that's going to make people want to hate me, and I apologize in advance, but it's true. I wasn't trying to become a novelist. Here's what happened...
The Secret Queer True Crime History Behind the Victorian Era's Other Sherlock Holmes
The forgotten queer history behind Victorian literature's other Sherlock Holmes.
E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories—he was the original Gentleman Thief, and for fifty years as popular as Sherlock—are almost entirely forgotten outside specialist circles, yet they contain one of Victorian literature's most compelling implicit queer relationships...
Brown Detectives: An Unlikely Club...
The last thing I thought I was doing as I was writing my debut novel The Great Game was that I was inadvertently writing myself into a members' club...
Why is British Asian crime fiction booming right now?