He is the author of eleven novels, among them a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron.
He was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine in 2013.
In 2016, his novel You Don't Have To Live Like This won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.
[1] After college, he played professional basketball in Landshut, Germany, for a team in the southern league of the German second division.
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