About
Shane Weller is the author of novels including The Girl with the Bad Mentality, The End of the Line, The Ninth Circle, Death Sentences, and The Accident, as well as of books and essays on a range of modern European writers.
Educated at the universities of Oxford and Yale, he has taught literature at Oxford and Kent, where he was Professor of Comparative Literature from 2010 to 2025.
His most recent novel, The Calling, was published in autumn 2026.
Selected Publications
‘As surprising, perhaps even as unbelievable, as it might seem, the thought of recording these thirteen encounters under their present title occurred to me sometime before my own diagnosis.'
'If you believed in such a thing, I suppose you might have called it fate. And thus, as he would have said, did say, more than once, something to be loved. Always in Latin. Amor fati, Paul.'
‘If this is a confession, and I can find no less misleading word for it, then it is a confession of love, not hate.'