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I’m keeping pretty much everything on my substack free for everyone to read right now - I think that’s the way the institution described further down this post would have encouraged me to do it - but if you are able to become a paid subscriber, I’m
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This one is better if you read to the end but I suppose I would say that, wouldn't I, but also, trust me, it is....
Don't be scared: it's not really that much about golf at all
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A Piece That's Not Really About Any Of That
A lot of people ask me why I am the way I am, so, after many years of holding back, I thought it was time to come clean. The truth is, it all dates back to the day in summer 1994 in the Nottingham branch of Virgin Megastore when the
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It was often on the sharp clear winter days when living on a hill above a train track felt most surreal to me, the days when the steam would slice through the icy air like the breath of a jogging dragon, days always in the minority in mild moist Devon
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Thank you for supporting my writing this year. I’ve opened up my archived pieces for a few days for everyone to read, in case you’re relatively new here, or missed them first time around. There are well over two dozen in total. These are among my favourite few:
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RICHARD I suppose it would have been around 2008. Certainly no earlier than 2006. The deepest part of a deep winter. Wind was blurring the air and thrashing every shred of extraneous debris from frightened trees and I walked, with no particular purpose, towards the dog-eared margin of the land.
A Sort Of (Real) Ghost Story For Solstice
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One of the things that surprised me, when I briefly moved to the green fringe of the fine city of Norwich in 2019, was the way the place sounded. It was quiet in a different way to the very rural house I’d moved from, where agricultural machinery and speeding
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Will seeing the cover of your book for the first time ever get any less thrilling? I very much doubt it. I’m so excited to be able to reveal the cover of my new book, 1983. Like its predecessor, Villager, and my 2018 collection of short stories Help The
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A Very Short Story Set In Some Woodland