Feb 2019 · Blog
The View from my Window
My window faces north. On winter mornings, the house’s shadow draws close as the low sun lights up the neighbours’ gardens. On the fence close by a wood pigeon has been keeping me company…
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Dec 2017 · Blog
Winter writing in the Pyrenees
I’m set to take the dawn train down to our goathouse in a Pyrenean village for a week’s writing retreat. I’m crazy, I’m told, for this seems foolhardy in winter; when I seek a…
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My father’s grave, Rempstone
Rempstone moved its church some centuries ago. Its old graveyard remains behind scraggly hedges in the centre of a field, a yew tree breaking through the box tombs. My father Cyril Goodman now lies…
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Client Earth, new environmental book, sold to Scribe
That’s made for cheering news as publishing hots up for the Frankfurt Book Fair – Client Earth, the book I’ve been writing alongside James Thornton for the last two years, has just sold to Philip…
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