Short fiction
"Sarabande" - Prospect, January 2024
"The Next Thing" - Prospect, January 2025

Essays
"In the Bogs with Seamus Heaney" - Prospect, November 2025
"Gertrude Trevelyan" - Prospect, September 2025
"On Not Reviewing Virginia Woolf" - Prospect, August 2025
"Russia's Reinvention of Invasion Literature" - Engelsberg Ideas, June 2025
"The unforgettable Michael Gambon" - Engelsberg Ideas, October 2024
"What makes a good opening line?" - Engelsberg Ideas, September 2024
"Remembering Sir Andrew Davis" - Gramophone, April 2024
"The Talented Evan S. Connell" (£) - Spectator World, April 2024
"The Broken Lawnmower: Noel Coward's Greatest Line" - Engelsberg Ideas, December 2023
"Like Buttermilk from a Jug: Ivor Gurney's Groove" (£) - London Review of Books, September 2022
"Priaulx Rainier: Fearless and Pioneering Composer" - Engelsberg Ideas, August 2021
"Benjamin Britten, Ruth Gipps, and Jeoffry the Poet's Cat" - Gramophone, October 2020
"Grace Notes: Michael Tippett" (£) - Times Literary Supplement, July 2020
"Tippett's Secret Involvement with the Trotskyist Left Wing" - BBC Music Magazine, January 2020

Reviews
The Life of Violet by Virginia Woolf (£) - Spectator World, September 2025
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries (Gwen and Augustus John) by Judith Mackrell (£) - Telegraph, June 2025
Dickens the Enchanter by Peter Conrad (£) - Spectator World, April 2025
Killing Time by Alan Bennett (£) - Spectator, November 2024
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers - Engelsberg Ideas, November 2024
My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr (£) - Spectator, October 2024
Rural Hours by Harriet Baker (£) - Prospect, August 2024
Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters - Engelsberg Ideas, June 2024
Catland by Kathryn Hughes - Literary Review, April 2024
Barbara Comyns by Avril Horner - Engelsberg Ideas, March 2024
Falling Rocket by Paul Thomas Murphy (£) - Spectator World, January 2024
The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle (£) - Spectator World, November 2023
The Poet and the Baroness: W.H. Auden and Stella Musulin by Michael O'Sullivan - Engelsberg Ideas, November 2023
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman (£) - Prospect, June 2023
The Age of Cats by Jonathan Losos (£) - Spectator, May 2023
Quartet by Leah Broad - Observer, March 2023
Tell Me Good Things by James Runcie (£) - Spectator, Jan 2023
Barbara Hepworth by Eleanor Clayton - Guardian, May 2021
Spirit of Place by Susan Owens - Guardian, December 2020
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols and Poulenc: The Life in the Songs by Graham Johnson - Observer, August 2020
As If By Chance by David Lan - Guardian, March 2020
Counterpoint by Philip Kennicott (£) - Spectator, March 2020
The Life & Loves of E. Nesbit by Eleanor Fitzsimons (£) - Spectator, October 2019
The Letters of Cole Porter - Literary Review, October 2019

Articles / Book Chapters

- Noel Coward the Spy
in Spies in History: From the Ancient World to the Silver Screen, ed. Paul Lay
(Havertown PA: Casemate, 2025)

"Michael Tippett's 'Lost' Prison Letter",
Tempo, 79 (311), January 2025 , 76 - 82

- Design for Living by Noel Coward, introduction
(London: Methuen Drama, 2023)

- 'Design for Living: David Myerscough Jones',
in Random Spectacular at The Fry Art Gallery (Norwich: St Jude's, 2020)

- 'Tippett, Eliot, and Madame Sosostris',
in The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music, ed. Delia da Sousa
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019)

- 'Sculpting with Sound: Priaulx Rainier',
The Strad, 127 (May 2016), 41-44

- 'Darkness Declares the Light: Tippett's String Quartets',
The Strad, 127 (March 2016), 38-42

- 'Michael Tippett and Morley College',
in Morley: 125th Anniversary Portrait, ed. Janet Sacks
(London: Third Millennium Publishing, 2015)

- 'An unknown bird in the early Faber nest', co-written with Jim McCue,
Notes and Queries, 61 (1), March 2014

- 'The Clarion Airs of Michael Tippett and Christopher Fry',
Musical Quarterly, 97 (2014), 616-660.

- The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett – review",
Cercles, 34 (July 2014).

- 'Tippett and Eliot',
Tempo, 67 (266), October 2013, 28-53

- "Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett – review",
Tempo 67 (265), July 2013, 88-92

CD Liner Notes (selected)

- Tippett, New Year (NMC)
- Noel Coward: A Marvellous Party (Signum)
- Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage (LPO Live)
- Tippett, Complete String Quartets (Wigmore Live CD)
- Tippett, Complete Symphonies (Hyperion)

Introductions to scores
- Tippett, Symphony in B flat (Schott music, 2018)
- Tippett, arr. Manning, Time Past, Time Present, Time Future (Schott music, 2015)