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  • Wels is famous in Austria for being boring. It’s much more attractive than nearby Traun, with a pretty riverside and…

  • The Documenta art festival was started in 1955 by local artist Arnold Bode as a way to shake off the…

  • Südtirol, Severance and the history of books

  • I am aliiiiiive

  • A roundup of the books I read in 2023.

  • I’ve been working on these comics for a while now, and the first collection is now available for pre-order. It…

  • My reading for January and February

  • My living room has a very handy built-in bookshelf (although the amount of different compartments meant it took a long…

  • I was supposed to be in Austria right now running school workshops, but obviously that’s not happening. Like many other…

  • So here’s my room. I moved to this small unfurnished flat in October, and until the New Year I didn’t…

  • I have a zine of articles about children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones (of Howl’s Moving Castle et al) I wrote…

  • When I was in Japan I went to the Studio Ghibli Museum just outside of Tokyo. Sadly pictures were not allowed…

  • I haven’t found as many good charity shop items lately as over the summer, but there’s been the odd few…

  • So it’s October now. The last few weeks I’ve been bouncing back and forth between Kent and Sussex. Job-hunting is…

  • The next issue of Being Editors will be about C.S.Lewis and Phillip Pullman. As a sneak preview, and to give…

  • 15 fun and effective ways to brush up on your foreign language skills.