Writing update: I’ve been on holiday (in the southern French Alps, it was a delight, scorpions appearing on my hand notwithstanding), but the long train journeys and some intensive working either side meant that this week I was able to hand back a hopefully-ready-to-sub revision of All The Birds Will Be Hostile to my agent, and check & send back page proofs of The Salt Oracle. Huzzah. Which clears the decks for me to return to the first pass edits of A Monstrous Theatre but I’m giving my brain a...