Claire English interviewed me about "Kicking Off" on Scotland's arts radio programme, Culture Cafe. We veered wildly around the subject, ending up where everything always does: Scottish independence. The iPlayer link is here for 6 days. My segment starts 25:00 mins in. Continue reading

Renowned journalist Hsaio-Hung Pai reviews my novel Rare Earth in the British leftist weekly Socialist Worker. She writes: "Rare Earth is a comic tragedy. It is the tragedy of a society swallowed up by the anarchy of the market. And it is comic because the characters have developed their own... Continue reading

I appeared on the David Frost programme on Al Jazeera English on 13 January, 20:00 GMT. Click here for AJ's Youtube channel. My interview is 10 minutes in. Continue reading

Hester Lacey has given me the FT Magazine's "inventory" treatment, together with a personalised coat of arms. Here's the link. Continue reading

Former Cameron speechwriter Ian Birrell reviews "Kicking Off" in the Observer. He writes: "Sadly, there are few answers to be found in this book, which has Mason flitting from Athens to Arizona to Cairo searching for answers to why it's "kicking off everywhere". For all his undoubted reporting skills and... Continue reading

Andy Beckett has written a punchy review of "Kicking Off" in The Guardian. He writes: "Pithily and authoritatively, he describes how globalisation, assumed by many supporters and critics alike to produce economically vigorous, politically docile societies almost in perpetuity, has in fact since around 2000 increasingly produced societies that are... Continue reading

My debut novel, Rare Earth is out now. Published by OR Books it's available, for now, exclusively from them either for Kindle or hardcopy. Click here to buy a copy (and read an extract). Later this year the book will be available in UK bookshops, published by No Exit. More... Continue reading

In the Observer Q&A section Carole Cadwalladr grills me about my novel Rare Earth, my new book about the present unrest Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere. I tell her: "I think we might look back on 2011 and 2012 as the years everything changed. And what has happened in 2011... Continue reading

Today's Guardian G2 carries a feature length exclusive extract from Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere. Read it here. Continue reading

My novel Rare Earth has been reviewed in the Morning Star. Reviewer Paul Simon writes: "[Mason] paints the conflicts of greed and principles, freedom and order in outrageously vivid hues, proving that fiction can tell big truths that factual accounts sometimes miss." The book is available exclusively from orbooks.com Continue reading