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Alan Humm edits the arts journal One Hand Clapping. The Sparkler is his first novel but he has also written two collections of poetry: A Brief and Biased History of Love (Culture Matters) and My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names. His second novel, Rough Music, follows a journalist and a Labour politician from 1945 to the early noughties and he is currently writing a book about an '80s pop band. Visit: alanhummswriting.com.
"""This is absolutely terrific-thoroughly steeped in Dickens's own idioms and ideas while also taking a step back and coolly assessing them from a distance. It's ... reminiscent (in a good way) of the rich period atmospheres generated by those two neo-Victorian Peters, Ackroyd and Carey."" Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens ""A remarkable Dickens-fi debut."" Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale ""A work of sublime psychogeography, a dark hymn to pre-Victorian London in all its grotty glory. Humm follows the ambitious young novelist Charles Dickens into the city's rookeries in search of edgy stories and characters. As he finds himself drawn into a vortex of crime, sexual intrigue and deceit, he realises that he won't be able to remain a detached observer in this seductive, dangerous underworld."" Nick Perry, author of The Loop"
