British novelist and journalist, he has been a travel writer for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and Time Out. His first novel, The Impressionist, was released in 2003, and he was designated one of the best young British writers by Granta. Transmission, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, followed in 2005, and My Revolutions came out in 2007. In 2013, his short story Memory Palace was the topic of a public exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London by a group of illustrators, graphic designers, and typographers. White Tears, his most recent work, was released in 2017.

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