M JOHN HARRISON

LIFE HASN’T CHANGED MUCH FOR M JOHN Harrison during the Covid-19 pandemic, even though he’s been in self-isolation at his West Midlands home following a heart attack a few years back. “Writers are essentially quite solitary, or we used to be, and I’m one of the used-to-bes,” he jokes.

Nevertheless, even in his seventies a man who first came to prominence as part of the New Wave is still looking out at the world with sharp eyes. Of his new novel, , an eerie examination.”