Reviews for Strange Horizons:

• Alvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires (2024)
• Wole Talabi, Convergence Problems (2024)
• Jon Greenaway, Capitalism: A Horror Story (2024)
• Forthcoming: Jack Fennell (ed), Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories (2024)

Reviews for The Irish Literary Supplement:

• Ann Enright, The Wren, The Wren (2024, forthcoming)

Reviews for The Scottish Review of Books:

• Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (2018)
• Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018)

Reviews for The List:

• Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier (* * * *) (2019) (2023 update: this link is broken and I can’t find a working one. Anyone who would like a copy of the review please get in touch)
• Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys (* * *) (2020)
• Martin MacInnes, Gathering Evidence (* * * * *) (2020)
• Eimear McBride, Strange Hotel (* * *) (2020) (this review was, pleasingly, quoted at length in the frontmatter of a 2023 Faber & Faber edition of the novel)

Other reviewing:

In 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 I was a fiction reader/reviewer for the first round of the James Tait Black Award.

I was a Scottish Review of Books ’emerging critic’ in 2018-19, mentored by Andrew Crumey.