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A new book project due out early 2026 – sample chapter
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What I read over the summer of 2025.
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A reading list for Mitteleuropa
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When I was a kid my uncle worked as a sales rep for a publisher. A lot of his titles…
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Lydia Bennet as a witch, Grace Dent’s autobiography, and an adult dive back into Narnia.
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I’ve got a small box of Goat Comics left, so I’m doing a sale. When they’re gone they’re gone. £6…
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My travel book is nearly finished. A combination of travel writing interspersed with history and culture about the places I’ve…
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Südtirol, Severance and the history of books
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Roundup of books by Stefan Zweig, Seanan McGuire and Peter S. Beagle
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I am aliiiiiive
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All the books I read in 2024
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A paper on the connections between Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock, T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, and other literature.
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A roundup of the books I read in 2023.
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A preview of my travel writing book.
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My goal this year is to read 100 books, but also regularly write small reviews of them. Here’s the first…
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I’ve made a children’s activity book about various locations in Margate, with open-ended drawing and writing activities that encourage observation,…
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This is probably the end of the line for me making zines. There’s no big dramatic or bad reason, I…
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In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room, The Making of Home and Woman on the Edge of Time. Indian medicine, social history,…
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I’ve been working on these comics for a while now, and the first collection is now available for pre-order. It…
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My reading for January and February
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(Forbidden Books by Alexander Rossi) Every year I do the Goodreads Challenge. In 2020 my target was 52 books and…
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Happy Christmas, if you celebrate it. I was brought up unreligious, by unbelieving parents, in a not very religious country,…
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Another charity shop book- this time from the 70s. It’s a slightly strange mix of technicolour things made from recycling…
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This edition has a behind the scenes of Captain Pugwash, extracts from Tove Jansson, Jill Patton-Walsh, an article about CS…
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Another book from a charity shop in Austria. I love how incredibly cack-handed some of the cakes are. Most themed…
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I got this craft book for kids from a charity shop in Austria earlier this year. Austria doesn’t have the…
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This charity shop fancy dress book is certainly… something. Lots of 80s actors modelling the costumes.
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After finishing the Borges project, I realised that one of the book covers with a little alteration and the addition…
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Jorge Luis Borges loved to create fictional books in his stories, using non-fiction formats like book reviews of non-existent books…
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Tim and the Hidden People is a series of children’s school reading books from the late 70s/early 80s that a…
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My living room has a very handy built-in bookshelf (although the amount of different compartments meant it took a long…
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This was my April 2014 piece for Storyboard , a writing site with monthly prompts run by a friend. I…
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I thought while stuck at home I’d do regular posts showing things I like which other people may not have…
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A few years back I made a zine with articles about writer Diana Wynne Jones (probably best known for writing…
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Every year I take part in the Good Reads challenge. My target this year was 52 books. I completed it…
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If you study Latin in the UK, there’s a very good chance you will use the Cambridge Latin books from…
