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Why Reading Online Reviews Of Your Book Will Lead You Nowhere Good
Even if you can't avoid doing it sometimes
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BOOKS!
Including the new one
The Gun's Always Loaded, The Horse Always Kicks
Two Days With My Dad
The Very Grungy Caterpillar
The Shopping Malls Of The Past, And Their Art
The Magic Room
It’s been a wet autumn: the kind of wet that, at times, has looked and felt not unlike a trailer for apocalypse. I think of the village where my mum and dad live, in the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire border lowlands, as a fundamentally dry place - a sharp contrast to the
Can You Please Stop Telling Me To Live My Best Life Please
Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic
A Writing Pledge From Me To Me For The Future
I wrote this for myself but you can read it too if you like
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The True Stories Behind Some Of The Photos In The 1970s Habitat Catalogues
It’s now only seven weeks, precisely, until my second novel, 1983, comes out (if you’d like to, you can pre-order it here from Blackwells with free worldwide delivery, which is extremely helpful in terms of it getting into the shops a bit more prominently and helping me write
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All The Life Coaches Have Life Coaches
Notes About Music, Primates, Bedclothes, Eggs And The Future Of The Universe
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A Brief, Unsparingly Honest Guide To The Real British Countryside From Someone Who Knows
Subscribe now It comes as something of a surprise to me to realise I have now been living in the British countryside for almost five decades. Before those conclusion-jumping folks amongst you read that statement and think “Oh, this guy is clearly a Grade-A bumpkin with no idea of how
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What Has The Nasty Little Syrup-Based Fucker Been Up To?
Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Deconstructed
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The Wall
Remembering - and accepting - the beautiful garden I lost.