Hearing the news in The Secret Agent, 34th International Joseph Conrad Conference, Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln. 5-7July 2008, Paper presentation - also published as a journal abstract in central databases e.g. MLA

Metropolitan moralizing in Hall Caine's "The Christian" and Joseph Conrad's "The Return", Victorian Popular fiction Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, London. September 2009, Also published ...