My New Novel

Nov 23, 2025

Because of the disaster I wrote about here, I’m aware that a lot of people don’t know I had a new book out in September. It’s called Everything Will Swallow You and you can read extracts of it here and here.

If you’d like to order it, I recommend using your purchase to support independent bookshops, using Bookshop.Org (which will do the same thing) or - if you’re outside the UK - using Blackwell’s, who, amazingly, offer free international delivery (if you’re quick, you might also be able to get a signed one from them).

You might like Everything Will Swallow You if you like at least one of the following:
1. Old dusty objects (especially records)
2. The power of friendship
3. Quieter forms of magic - especially the kind found deep in beautiful (and some distinctly less beautiful) landscapes
4. Folklore (the kind we know, and the kind still to come, after we are all dead)
5. Walking
6. Knitting
7. Long complex stories of 50-plus years of life told in a not insanely large number of pages
8. Crows
9. Grannies
10. Stand-up comedy
11. Dogs
12. Psychedelia
13. Dorset
14. Cornwall
15. Hills
16. The sea (and its timeless mystery)

It’s definitely not a book for everyone, but a few people already seem to be enjoying it…

I’m very excited because Justin Avoth, the narrator of my all-time favourite audiobook, Erotic Vagrancy by Roger Lewis, has just completed the recording of the audiobook of EWSY. It can be pre-ordered here.

Five of the other books I wrote for my defunct ex-publishes Unbound have now also been republished by Swift Press (the sixth, Notebook, is coming in April). They are:

1983, available from Blackwells with free international delivery.

Villager, available from Blackwells with free international delivery.

Ring The Hill, available from Blackwells with free international delivery.

Help The Witch, available from Blackwells with free international delivery.

21st-Century Yokel, available from Blackwells with free international delivery.

Help The Witch, available from Blackwells with free international delivery.