The Gay Street Chronicles series are Ian McKellen’s “perfect weekend” reading (The Times) and are “incisive, hilarious and outlandish” novels - Matthew Parris. Keeling’s writing is “funny, clever, silly in the right way and strangely moving” - Jeanette Winterson. A former foreign correspondent of the Financial Times, Keeling exposed a multi-billion dollar Nigerian government scandal in 1992. Accused of being a CIA spy and traumatised by real world politics, he turned to writing fiction and was long listed for the 2022 Bath Novel Award for his debut novel Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé.