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Once Upon A Time On A Lane
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....
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The True Stories Behind Some Of The Photos In The 1970s Habitat Catalogues
Serendipity Range (1971) 11.39am. Carol’s head felt like a fire in a neglected pedal bin. The vodka had been a mistake, the downers a larger one. There…
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Houses In Motion
The piece below is something I wrote during the autumn before last - about a special house which proved very inspirational during the writing of…
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SOME INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTALS I HAVE COME ACROSS DURING WALKS IN THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE
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The Ginger Man
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The True Stories Behind Some Of The Photos In The 1970s Habitat Catalogues
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A Spring Notebook
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Physical and Psychic Encounters With The Extremely Famous And How They Have Forever Altered Me As A Person
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Some Notes About My Dad That I Have Made In My Notebooks
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An exclusive early excerpt from a work-in-progress
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…
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The Lion, The Witch And the Dress Code
Living In The Magic House
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Dancing With Giants
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…
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An Interview (And A Few Things I've Been Reading/Doing)
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…
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Many Nice Things
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer Tom Cox
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A Review Of Some Of The Contents Of My House By A Domesticated Moorland Pixie
“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…
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Fornication!
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…
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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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