SEASON

My debut novel, Season, was published by Lightning, the fiction imprint of Eye Books, in 2025.

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Season follows two men in adjacent seats as they form an unlikely intergenerational friendship in the stands of an ailing football club. Told over thirty-eight chapters (one for each game of a Premier League campaign), Season is a novel about the healing, unifying and often maddening role of ritualised sport, inspired by my own experiences as a Norwich City fan.

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The Mail on Sunday describes Season as a ‘clever and heartfelt debut,’ while the Telegraph says Season offers 'a heartfelt and sensitive portrait of male bonding in the stands.'

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Writing in the Irish Times, John Boyne says Season 'hits the back of the net.' 

 

Season has also featured in the TLS and The Critic and was described as ‘compelling’ on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.

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For football legend Jonathan Pearce, Season is ‘a beautiful novel about the beautiful game.’

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Ashley Hickson-Lovence says Season is ‘a winner of a story in every way that all kinds of readers will inhale and remember long after the final whistle.’

 

D.J. Taylor describes Season as ‘well observed, neatly handled, and full of good things.’

 

Nicolas Padamsee says Season is ‘brilliant, original, and necessary.’

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For Michael Donkor, Season is ‘a beautifully crafted and accomplished debut – an emotionally rich and formally fresh examination of masculinity and alienation that deserves a wide readership.’

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The hardback is out now. Paperback fans have to wait until September. Until then, feel free to preorder.

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