Author of several novels incuding - Gallimauf's Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Word, The Ballad of Lee Cotton, and Nookie. My fiction has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, and twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize.

Completed a Ph.D. on the psychology of humour at The London School of Economics; worked all over as a research psychologist; lectured for ten years at Goldsmiths' College, London University; taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.

I've set up a couple of new imprints - Mojo books and Lollapalooza - as epublishers of fiction, poetry and books on cultural studies and body-politics.

As a consultant, I do semiotic analysis of just about anything - cat food, websites, pizzas, banks, cricket, advertising, detergents, politicians.

Currently writing a novel, and a non-fiction book on the semiotics of the body.

Alive and ticking in North London.