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FINALLY!
At last the painful wait is over, and I can reveal Joe McLaren's brilliant cover design for my third novel.
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Why I Decided To Sell (A Really Huge Chunk Of) My Record Collection
I took a formidable wedge of my record collection to a vinyl dealer friend in Gloucestershire this week.
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The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s
This is a piece I wrote a while ago but I wanted to make it free to read again because most of you won’t have seen it, and a couple of people recently…
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Lots Of People Will Unsubscribe As A Result Of This, Solely Because It's My Second Post In Consecutive Days, But The Fact Is My Cat Died And…
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What Will Life Really Be Like After The Internet Gets Incinerated?
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HURRAY! I Now Own My Books Again!
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The Struggle To Leave The Footbath
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Your Billions Will Not Grant You An Exemption From The Indignity Of Death
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Once Upon A Time On A Lane
A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to…
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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.
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The Village Message Board
Judith Sparrow: Has anyone spotted a horse rug on their travels?
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France
Much has happened to me over this past week, but perhaps the place to begin is that last Thursday afternoon I saved a French kitten’s life by grabbing…
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The Lost Place
In 2022, in the aftermath of the publication of my debut novel Villager, in a wild and impractical dust storm of inspiration, I had an idea for a…
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I'm Sorry, I Cannot Afford To Purchase Your House, But I Might Well Write Weird Stories Inspired By It
What a week.
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Deciding Not To Interview Lou Reed
A mixtape of sorts
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The Villager
The Villager
New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.
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