Christmas 2020 promises to be one like no other. Most of us will be at home. There’ll be less visiting but more home fires; less cocktails in bars but more mulled wine and mince pies on the couch. Presents are less likely to be handed out from under a tinsel-laden tree but instead delivered by a postman. Never has a Christmas seemed more the season of books. Never has a Christmas seemed more the season of books. What could be …
Category: Biography & Memoir
On the face of it, I get up, I put on my runners and I go out the door and run. On the face of it so often a person …
The process of writing Tell Me The Truth About Loss has been one of the most powerful experiences I’ve ever known. In equal measures, one of the toughest and also …
Music to Write To Before I really started writing, I mean writing in earnest, writing for a living (or a kind of living), using writing as a way to think, …
Following on from Part One of this series, which looked at the fiction titles that have succeeded in converting some of the book-fearing men I know to the joys of …
handiwork is my first book of non-fiction. It was written quickly, almost impulsively, over the course of six months in 2018, and in response to a period in which I was …
Along with books, music has always been one of my greatest joys. Putting these two great loves together was a no-brainer. My collection of music-related books has been growing, and …
For those of you who are currently staying close to home in urban areas, I offer some vicarious countryside living in the form of two lovely books: The Secret Life …
It’s hard to imagine how you’d cope if overnight you lost your home and all of your possessions other than what you can carry or store in someone’s garage. It …
I have always loved reading biographies about historical figures. One of the things I find most interesting is when you reach the moment of their death, as it is here …
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