Likes: boxing, heavy/psychedelic blues/soul/rock, absurdism, surrealism, fires on the beach, teaching, debating, films (David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Peter Mullan, Mike Leigh etc.) and cooking.
Influences: J. G. Ballard, Mary Shelley, Iain Banks, Franz Kafka, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Roald Dahl ...