大象传媒

Writer, columnist and host of London's trendiest literary salon tells Edi Stark about a childhood of extreme violence, drunkenness, homophobia and neglect, although he insists he was loved as well as hated. Newarthill in North Lanarkshire was a place he was desperate to escape and soon he found his spiritual home in Brighton where he is now married to Mike, a ceramicist who he 'sledged into on a teatray' at the age of 19 at university.