Blog, Writing
Sitting with the opposition – Hull v. Leicester
I’ve been in Hull for seven years now … but have been supporting Leicester City for fifty. The first…
November 1, 2015-
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Blog, WritingDarwin’s seedlings
English Heritage, like the National Trust, maintains the homes of English writers. They serve as walk-in memorials and attract countless…
October 25, 2015 -
Blog, WritingThe Russian Cemetery, Sitka, Alaska
Bad news travels as fast as mud: the immigration officer at Seattle airport knew we were flying on to…
October 18, 2015 -
Blog, WritingClient 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…
October 8, 2015 -
WritingThe Lovely Life of Arnold
[Native Americans had the berdache tradition, in which a boy might be recognized as ‘gay’ from when very young. This is…
October 2, 2015 -
Blog, WritingHighgate Cemetery & Douglas Adams
In Highgate Cemetery, a forested hillside contains tumbling tombs. Star attraction is the grave of Karl Marx, beside a…
August 7, 2015 -
Blog, WritingThe role of narrative and argument
My big writing projects can take decades. I’m not slow, but redraft a great deal. Of late, I’ve felt a…
May 30, 2015 -
Blog, WritingWill Self and the Creative writing PhD
In his piece on the Death of the Novel in The Guardian, Will Self comments on his own PhD Creative Writing…
May 28, 2015 -
Blog, WritingBarbara Kingsolver’s FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR – a grand model for the environmental novel
I’m tracking through a lot of books as I tackle my own nonfiction project, on climate change and environmental…
May 3, 2014
