The Villager

Writing on writers - Nancy, Agatha, various Elizabeths and more. And on other things, from classical ballet to classic murder trials. Whatever interests me, and I hope you also.

Chips and salsa, essays, memoir, food analogies

The adventures of an artist and printmaker walking and drawing in the Norfolk countryside

Welcome to Stone Club Recreating prehistory since 2021 Founded by artists Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw, Stone Club was set up as a place for stone enthusiasts to congregate, to muse and most importantly to stomp to stones.

This is my attempt to catalogue some of the experiences from the creative scene in Devon, straddling many mediums across many years.

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever changing world.

New writing and related nonsense from the author of Iconicon, Concretopia and Outskirts

The digital world is full of voices (often loud and disgruntled), but this is a place where you won’t find the obvious perspective, or the one you see everywhere else. By an Irish writer, editor and ex-philosopher.

Food - from garden to table - and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.