On November 13, I’m giving a talk about Paradise Lost and its legacy at Toppings bookshop in Edinburgh. You can get a ticket here.

My book, What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost, comes out in November 2024. It’s published in the UK by Jonathan Cape and in the US by Astra House. You can preorder the US edition here and the UK edition here.

I’ve also written an introduction for a new Vintage Classics edition of Paradise Lost, exploring why so many people have complained about Milton’s epic, and why you should read it regardless. The edition is due to be published in November 2024, to mark the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death.

For the July issue of the Literary Review, I wrote about the 350th anniversary of Paradise Lost, which was published in its final version in July 1674, shortly before his death, as well as its extraordinary afterlife over the past four centuries.

In May 2024, I gave a talk at Milton’s Cottage - a cottage in the village of Chalfont St. Giles where John Milton is said to have finished writing Paradise Lost. It’s an extraordinary little museum. Find out more about it here.