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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
In London he worked in advertising and co-created Global Soundtracks, a music podcast made with Tom Ravenscroft before his BBC 6 Music years. He moved to Berlin in 2013, where he has worked as a communications consultant and raised three children.
His writing returns repeatedly to what he calls the geographies of belonging: the places, scenes and shared rituals that hold people together, and what happens to them when the conditions that made them possible disappear. His debut novel FOLK was published by Velocity Press in 2025 and longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Hannah McGill called it "a warm, perceptive, funny and wise book about finding your tribe — how it can save you, how it can lead you into danger, and ultimately how it all goes into the person you become." Emma Warren, with whom he appeared at Faversham Literary Festival, praised its "new insights into the freedoms offered by illegal raves and radical youth clubs."
For Borealis Festival he created Argument of the Broken Window, a site-specific walking piece reimagining Emmeline Pankhurst's 1912 suffrage speech as a route through central London. His second novel The Municipal draws on his founding of The Night Trains, a cultural rail project featured in the Evening Standard and SUITCASE. He lives in Berlin with his partner and their three children.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
In London he worked in advertising and co-created Global Soundtracks, a music podcast made with Tom Ravenscroft before his BBC 6 Music years. He moved to Berlin in 2013, where he has worked as a communications consultant and raised three children.
His writing returns repeatedly to what he calls the geographies of belonging: the places, scenes and shared rituals that hold people together, and what happens to them when the conditions that made them possible disappear. His debut novel FOLK was published by Velocity Press in 2025 and longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Hannah McGill called it "a warm, perceptive, funny and wise book about finding your tribe — how it can save you, how it can lead you into danger, and ultimately how it all goes into the person you become." Emma Warren, with whom he appeared at Faversham Literary Festival, praised its "new insights into the freedoms offered by illegal raves and radical youth clubs."
For Borealis Festival he created Argument of the Broken Window, a site-specific walking piece reimagining Emmeline Pankhurst's 1912 suffrage speech as a route through central London. His second novel The Municipal draws on his founding of The Night Trains, a cultural rail project featured in the Evening Standard and SUITCASE. He lives in Berlin with his partner and their three children.
Author: Stef Macbeth
Genres: Literary Fiction
Dance. Eat. Sleep. Ride.
Some Berliners buy a rusting East German sleeper train off the internet and turn it into a club, a kitchen, a social experiment. To pay for it they bring in a Californian investor, pitching a version that appeals to him. For nine months the train rolls around Europe carrying the political weather and a cross-section of European society.
The contradictions are there from the start: total artistic freedom at one end of the train, lavish VIP areas at the other. Uncomfortable, and surprisingly productive. What brings it down isn't the money. It's footage nobody knew had been taken, converging with a far-right network that has been documenting the train for a year and waiting for its moment. They meet one night at a siding near the Hungarian border.
Twelve voices, one of them the train's. Nobody arrives with the whole picture. Nobody could.
For readers of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road, Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake, and Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection.