Will the Earth survive the Sun’s red giant phase, or will the Sun consume it? The projections have gone back and forth, wobbling, and no one can say for certain.

How would you go on if your home was taken from you? Your family? Your language?

Malc’s Boy is an experimental novel in the vein of French autofiction with a Cumbrian setting.

Still, a few weeks ago someone asked me what advice I would give my pre- publication self and I realised that I wouldn’t do very much differently.