Clear is the winner of the 2025 Wales Book of the Year.
'An intricately crafted, passionate and remarkable novel. We loved this book, for its story, for its ambition, for its sentences, for its relevance to our world today.' —2025 Wales Book of the Year judges
Clear — Helder in Dutch, translated by Nicolette Hoekmeijer — is one of four novels shortlisted for the 2025 Europese Literatuurprijs. More here
I'm delighted to be joining 13 other Fellows at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris from September 2025 to May 2026 to work on my new book. Find more information and a full list of Fellows here
Clear is one of 15 books longlisted for the 2025 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, awarded annually to 'a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.'
See the full longlist here
I will be in conversation with my Dutch translator, Nicolette Hoekmeijer, and bookseller Reny vd Kamp at the wonderful Athenaeum Bookshop in Spui Square, Amsterdam, on Thursday April 17th at 5.30pm. Tickets are free, you can register here
Clear is one of 12 books longlisted for the 2025 Europese Literatuurprijs which is awarded annually 'for the best contemporary European novel published in Dutch translation in the past year.'
See the full longlist here
Clear is one of six books shortlisted for this year's Winston Graham Prize. Established in Cornwall in memory of the creator of the Poldark books, the prize is awarded annually to a historical novel 'set in the UK and Ireland with a powerful sense of place.' See the shortlist here
