PAUL EWEN is a New Zealand writer based in south London. His work has appeared in the British Council's New Writing anthology, the Guardian, the TES, Tank, and Five Dials. Paul's first novel, Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author, was published by Galley Beggar Press in 2014. It went on to appear on numerous Books Of The Year lists, won a Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and was described as “inspired” by the Sunday Times, whose reviewer also called it “a brilliant, deranged new comic creation... the funniest book I’ve read in years.”  In 2018, Galley Beggar Press published Paul’s second Francis Plug novel, Francis Plug: Writer in Residence.

Praise for Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author:

“A modern comic masterpiece.”  —New Statesman 

“Inspired. A brilliant, deranged new comic creation. The funniest book I’ve read in years.” —The Sunday Times

“Francis Plug rampages across the literary scene like an alcoholic Mr Pooter… It’s one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.” —The Times  

“Wonderful… Priceless… This sublime book is surely a parable for our times.” —The Guardian

 “So funny you find yourself giggling helplessly long after you’ve passed the joke… Pure – and purely pleasurable - silliness.”  —The Times Literary Supplement

 “A brilliant send up of the entire literary circus.”  —BBC Radio 4, Open Book

“It’s becoming a cliché to say ‘Paul Ewen is a comic genius and Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author is the funniest book in years’ – but it’s no less true.” —Toby Litt