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Joshua Knapp


Joshua Knapp grew up in the north of England. After university, he taught religion in schools in London before heading north again. He now lives in West Yorkshire and works in public transport. 

The Haxton Review is his first novel, although he has written for church newspapers and transport magazines. He enjoys reading and walking on the hills. He doesn’t have any kids or pets. He did recently own a cactus but it died due to his neglect.


  • Trauma Fiction

    13 October 2026

    Against the rise of trauma culture, truth is no longer the currency of wrongs. What use is fiction in narrating the evils that permeate our lives? How do cultures reconcile themselves to their traumatic present through artifice?


  • The Haxton Review by Joshua Knapp

    Blending sharp social commentary and raw personal confession, Joshua Knapp’s debut novel is a tense, timely thriller set against the soft totalitarianism of contemporary Britain.

    £21.95
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