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1. A Map Of The United Kingdom After The 2029 Technology Crash 2. A Squirrel Map Of My Local Area 3. A Look At The Ghost Hares Of Dartmoor Throughout History 4. A Map Of The Journey Arthur H Norway Took For His 1897 Book Highways And Byways In Devon
1. Cornwall. Sometimes I drive to see empty houses I can’t afford. The more dilapidated the better is the general rule. It’s a combined symptom of my obsession with abandoned buildings being reclaimed by nature and the arguably contradictory materialist part of my personality which is in awe
JOHN I first met John on a brutally crowded train from Birmingham to Devon. It turned out our reserved seats had been commandeered by two members of the same shrill family from Tamworth and that got us to talking. He could not have looked more out of place, standing there
Hi all. Just to clarify on the latest post (since it’s become clear to me that a couple of people didn’t realise): it’s actually 2000-plus words long and will be available for every subscriber, paid and free, to read from early tomorrow evening (you’ll receive another
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JOHN I first met John on a brutally crowded train from Birmingham to Devon. It turned out our reserved seats had been commandeered by two members of the same shrill family from Tamworth and that got us to talking. He could not have looked more out of place, standing there
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Serendipity Range (1971) 11.39am. Carol’s head felt like a fire in a neglected pedal bin. The vodka had been a mistake, the downers a larger one. There would be no chance of making it to her aunt’s luncheon now and all hope of a reconciliation would be
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Thank you for subscribing to my new Substack page. I really appreciate all of you who have taken the time to do it, whether you have chosen the paid or free option, and I wanted to explain a little about why I’m doing this, and why I’m hoping
* A friend met me at the pub and told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. One thing he’d found in the house was a knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been
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Episode 2: The Crystal Ball, The Travelling Font and The Wooden Box of Borley Rectory ft. Michael Tanner0:00/2001×
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When I was dragged (not as reluctantly as I pretended) on walks as a child by my parents, I often amused myself by going off into my own fantasy world: I'd look at derelict buildings and imagine the banshees and spectres who lived in there, wander off into
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These days, when I’m writing a book, I want to learn, I don’t want to rest too hard on anything overfamiliar, I want to challenge myself to take my writing somewhere it hasn’t gone in the past, and I want a sense of the unknown: a feeling