The Signal

Writing The Signal I’ve wanted to write a novel about the Second World War for as long as I can remember. That novel is still somewhere in the future. But when the idea for The Signal started forming, it pulled me back further — back to the mud of Flanders, back to 1917, back to a war that feels, in some ways, more remote and more strange than the one that followed it. ...

May 6, 2026 · 3 min · 624 words · Paul Green