Writing
To date, he has published six novels, two of which he has adapted as screenplays for movie productions.
Upon writing his fifth novel, Speak for England (2005), The Guardian praised the work, saying that "James Hawes has matured into a wonderful satirist." His latest novel is My Little Armalite (2008), of which The Guardian remarked: "Hawes has developed into a prolifically inventive and increasingly subtle satirist". His Kafka biography, Excavating Kafka (2008), caused outrage in Germany but was hailed (again in The Guardian) as "this utterly brilliant and absolutely infuriating book ..."
Since 2008, James Hawes has been Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University.
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