‘In the place of creation there was only fear’: Oliver Mol rides to recovery in his memoir Train Lord

By Belinda Castles, Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Sydney

Oliver Mol’s Train Lord is a sequence of personal essays journeying around and into a ten-month episode of intense physical and psychic pain. Yet from the opening page of this compelling work, we are carried along by a humour and vitality that reads as courage.

Review: Train Lord – Oliver Mol (Michael Joseph)

The premise is immediately arresting, carrying echoes of those stories of gifted athletes struck down by devastating illnesses and injuries.

In 2015,…

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