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Ok ok so you’ve seen the headline of this piece and you probably want me to get to the point but first, a question: Would you like a free book? As you might know, I’m currently giving away signed hardbacks of both Villager and Notebook to anyone who
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* It was 2015 when I first sketched out my ‘Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash’. Recently, I gave the sketch to my dad, Mick, and he came up with the infinitely more attractive and detailed version you can see above. 2029 seemed exotically, brain-meltingly far away in 2015
An early excerpt from a freshly completed novel
A fortnight ago I bought a lot of books from my publisher. What I am talking about here is “Level of books that take you several hours to shift into your house and stack, require the use of a wheelbarrow and leave you exhausted for 3-4 days afterwards.” Maybe I
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The piece below is something I wrote during the autumn before last - about a special house which proved very inspirational during the writing of Villager - which I’ve decided to repost today as at least 80% of you will never have read it before. Subscribe now Someone turned
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I’ve decided to open up my paywalled archives for the next week (i.e. until Friday May 10th) in case any new subscribers here would like to read any of my older Substack stuff - for example this piece on lanes or this piece on dilapidated buildings or this
Living In The Magic House
Me reading this out loud: I might have known I was asking for it by deciding to write a novel called Everything Will Swallow You: that, in doing so, I would be giving it an invite to lock me between its teeth, roll me around on its inflamed tongue, gulp
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I’m currently giving away signed paperbacks of my books Notebook and Villager to everyone who takes out the cut price full annual subscription to my Substack. This offer is open to everyone, wherever they are in the world, whatever the postage cost (I’ll email you for your postal
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“Pixy/Piskie: This is the standard term in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset for a fairy, though many writers from the early 19th Century onwards have insisted that the two races are quite distinct.. (A pixie’s) best-known characteristic is causing people to lose their way, even in a familiar neighbourhood:
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Not really. But I wanted to make sure everyone knows that for today and tomorrow I’m reducing my annual subscription fee by a further £15 and sending out signed paperbacks of Villager and Notebook to everyone who takes it out, wherever they happen to be on the planet, whatever
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The full written version of this post is for paid subscribers only but the first half of these notes are free to read. It’s one of those pieces that does connect up a bit and you will get a bit more out of if you read all the way