I’m a Dublin-based writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Novels include The Jewel; and Inch Levels, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award. Non-fiction titles include Frost: That was the life that was, a biography of television journalist David Frost; and The Secret History of our Streets, which accompanies a BBC history of London. My short fiction and essays have appeared in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Cyphers, Banshee, and Tangerine, and in a range of anthologies. I am a literary reviewer on the Irish Times; a judge on the RTE national short story award; a moderator at book festivals across Ireland; and a Director of Irish PEN / PEN na hÉireann.