Blog, Writing
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…
December 3, 2017-
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Blog, WritingHanoi and Dien Bhien – scooters & cement
7 million people live in Hanoi and 5 million scooters ferry them about. It’s a city of marvels in…
August 7, 2017 -
Blog, WritingLarkin as Vampire
A little card from 1954 sits in a glass case in Hull’s university library, in an exhibition that…
July 29, 2017 -
Blog, WritingColm Tóibín HOUSE OF NAMES
Throw out what you thought you knew of the House of Agamemnon & start here. Has Colm Tóibín been…
April 22, 2017 -
Blog, WritingWhen other people’s stories can save the world
I write in various forms. The challenge interests me. Client Earth, out in May, had its challenge set by…
March 7, 2017 -
Blog, WritingThe genius loci – when place generates writing ideas
E.M. Forster was walking in sunshine in the country outside of Rapello. The distant town was bright against a…
January 24, 2017 -
Blog, WritingKilling & Remembering in Clapton
The news bulletin told of a man killed on a Hackney street, among shoppers on a Saturday afternoon. I…
September 22, 2016 -
Blog, WritingHelen Garner: This House of Grief
Years ago an agent tried to convince me to write to write a true-crime book about German cannibals. She…
September 20, 2016 -
Blog, WritingThe Theresienstadt Family Camp: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Follow the rail tracks inside Auschwitz-Birkenau but don’t go far. Those tracks lead an agonizingly long distance to one…
September 19, 2016
