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100 Things About Moving House You Must Know Before You Die
Not really; there are only 17, and they're just some thoughts I've had, and you don't have to know them before you die, or at all, if you don't want to...
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Your Billions Will Not Grant You An Exemption From The Indignity Of Death
A compendium of small thoughts about money, the technowanker apocalypse, weather, history, music and semi-colons
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Brad Francis, Deputy Assistant Senior Head Negotiator Of Sales Experience
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The Turning Point
A new short story
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My Notebook
Subscribe now It’s been hard to write recently. Not because I have no inspiration but because I have so, so much of it and acting as an irritating barrier to that inspiration are some ongoing difficulties with my publisher, who - as some of you will no doubt now
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Things I've Talked To Books About
Friendship in the post-pandemic era, writing, reading, social sacrifice and interesting chats with living and dead people I've never met
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SOME INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTALS I HAVE COME ACROSS DURING WALKS IN THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE
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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The Garden Of Forking Hannahs
A new short story
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The Most Unsettling Walk I've Ever Taken
This is a piece I wrote when I was very first using Substack. Most of you won’t have seen it so I wanted to make it free to read, once again. Subscribe now What is more remarkable: our capacity to forget suffering and darkness, or our capacity to remember
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A Slightly Different End-Of-Year Top Five
I noticed a few people have been marking the year’s conclusion by reposting their most-read pieces on Substack. I debated doing the same thing, then, in customarily contrary fashion, decided I’d post my least-read pieces instead. But I thought about it a bit more and remembered one of
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