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What a week. Today I found out, via this article in the Bookseller magazine and messages from other authors who wrote books for my ex-publisher, Unbound, that, despite their promises otherwise, a trickle of the huge sum of money they have failed to pay me and others for sales of
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A mixtape of sorts
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Facing - and trying to get over - more than half a lifetime of aerophobia
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A unexpectedly special walk, the evolution of a stonking riff, a book recommendation, and four free signed ones I can send you
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Autumn is possibly the time of year that makes me most furious when I’m in the countryside. It’s coming again soon, worse luck, and as always it will be disgusting and messy. Look at the state of this path I found a few autumns ago in Gloucestershire, a
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It was the week before I moved house and I was haring around, begging local businesses for old cardboard boxes and dropping off unwanted possessions at charity shops and recycling centres. After donating some books and clothes to the Liskeard branch of British Heart Foundation I realised I was not
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Two Days With My Dad
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As I drive, as well as trying to stay aware of potential hazards, I scan around for the names of small businesses and their owners on vans and roadside signs. It’s always an insight into the brain-frying number of jobs that are genuinely out there: jobs that, if you
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This is a piece I wrote a while ago but I wanted to make it free to read again because most of you won’t have seen it, and a couple of people recently told me - to my surprise - that it was their favourite thing I’d written
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Some new very short stories by me: one for everyone to read, and four more as a treat for paying subscribers
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