Publications
In print
Books, plays, introductions, and short fiction.
Academic Writing
Obscenity, Literary Censorship, and Queer British Fiction
Monograph · Bloomsbury
A study of mid-twentieth-century queer fiction as both text and book object. Drawing on the archives of publishers, authors, literary agents and editors, it examines how post-war British publishing "toned down" queer novels — through dust jackets, marketing and distribution — and reads these books as sites of both containment and resistance. Covers works by Denton Welch, Francis King, Mary Renault, Martyn Goff and Gore Vidal, the censorship accusations against W. H. Smith, and the obscenity trial of The Well of Loneliness.
The Collected Works of John Ford, Vol. II & III
Co-editor · Oxford University Press, 2017 (gen. ed. Brian Vickers)
A scholarly old-spelling edition of Ford's collaborative plays. Co-edited three of the works — The Laws of Candy, The Spanish Gypsy, and The Sun's Darling — establishing texts from the original editions with full commentary.
"Could you make it rather more of a He and She picture"
Article · Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 116 no. 4 (December 2022)
"Queer Texts and Dust Jackets in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Fiction." On the visual and material packaging of queer novels and the negotiations behind their cover art.
Plays
Tumulus
Playscript · Nick Hern Books, 2018
The published edition of the queer noir, winner of a VAULT Origins Award. Also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 3.
Introductions, Essays & Reviews
A Jingle Jangle Song
by Mariana Villa-Gilbert · Introduction by Christopher Adams · Lurid Editions, 2026
A lost queer novel of the late 1960s, returned to print: folk singer Sarah Kumar moves through countercultural London until an encounter with an older woman derails her life.
Finistère
by Fritz Peters · Introduction co-written with Jack Parlett
A new edition of Fritz Peters' mid-century gay novel.
A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945
Contributor · Manchester University Press
A short article, "Placing Queer Mid-Century Fiction" (pp. 140–143), in this collaborative history of queer life in Britain and Ireland.
Customer choice or self-censorship?
Essay, co-written with George Cooper · The Bookseller
Publishers and distributors face hard decisions when international legislation creeps towards censorship.
Short Stories
Haitch
Short story · The Write Launch, 2023
A darkly comic story of two old friends, a fastidious household on Gordon Square, and a greyhound named Hastings.
