Nearlywriter and Director of if:book UK, think and do tank exploring the future of the book and digital possibilities for literature. 
Author of The Thoughts of Betty Spital (Penguin UK), We Two Boys (play,winner of George Orwell Award) and www.insearchoflosttim.net, "A jeu d'esprit and just possibly the future of fiction" - Independent on Sunday. 
Currently writing What Didn't Quite, a nearlyology
Previously Director of Booktrust, The Poetry Society and arts officer for public libraries in Birmingham and Sheffield. 
Blogger at www.bookfutures.com
Website: www.ifsoflo.com for collaborative literature happenings, homecooked by ifbook.co.uk