Born in 1978, grew up in England and has mostly lived in Scotland since 1997. His first novel No Fireworks (Faber & Faber, 2005) was nominated for four awards. This was followed by a second novel Hope for Newborns (Faber & Faber, 2008) and soon after by Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury, 2008) which won the Somerset Maugham Award for Non-Fiction 2009. He has recently been appointed a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Strathclyde University. Recent projects include a comic called Dougie’s War (Freight, 2010, in collaboration with artist David Turbitt), and Giggs Will Tear You Apart, a novel, due April 2012 on Tindal Street Press. He is also a senior editor at Cargo.

• Editor of The Year of Open Doors
• Currently editing “After The Fall” for Cargo.
• Currently editing “Wasted in Love” by Allan Wilson