Spufford was chief
publisher's reader from 1987–1990 for
Chatto & Windus. He is a creative writing professor at
Goldsmiths, University of London. Spufford specialised in non-fiction for the first part of his career, but began a transition towards fiction in 2010. In 2016 he published his first novel,
Golden Hill. Spufford has also edited three anthologies:
The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings (1989),
The Chatto Book of the Devil (1992), and
The Antarctic (2008). Spufford has written an unauthorised novel set in the universe of
C. S. Lewis's
Narnia series,
The Stone Table. The novel takes place between ''
The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. Spufford distributed self-printed copies to friends. Writer
Adam Roberts praised it as "a seamless recreation of Lewis's writing-style at its best". The author hoped to obtain permission from the C. S. Lewis estate to publish it commercially, but did not receive a response from the estate. == Personal life ==