[citation needed] He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature.
[citation needed] He started work on a new fictional project called A Perfect Art.
[1] In 2008, Nicolas Cheetham at Quercus Publishing bought the rights to the series and planned an ambitious reprinting and repackaging of the sequence, 'recasting' it as eighteen shorter novels (including a radically re-written finale) and an all-new prequel novel, provisionally entitled When China Comes.
[2] The reissuing of the series was planned to run from September 2010 to May 2014, commencing with the prequel novel, now retitled Son of Heaven.
He is also working on three novels, The Beast with Two Backs, Heaven's Bright Sun, and Roads to Moscow.