Humm, Alan: - Alan Humm edits the arts journal One Hand Clapping. The Sparkler is his first novel but he has also written two collections of poetry: A Brief and Biased History of Love (Culture Matters) and My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names. His second novel, Rough Music, follows a journalist and a Labour politician from 1945 to the early noughties and he is currently writing a book about an '80s pop band. Visit: alanhummswriting.com.