I planned to do a monthly round up of everything I’ve been reading but the weeks since the end of January kind of got away from me. However here it is…
With the sad news of the passing of Hilary Mantel, people began exchanging stories of their meetings with her. A picture quickly developed of someone…
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Archives Series: Vol 1. First published in Gutter 6, Spring 2012.
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March was an eclectic month reading-wise. I didn’t think I was going to get much done as my work plate overfloweth but it turned out I needed that down…
So that’s been a year (thirteen months, technically) of my Substack adventures and I’d tentatively say it’s been a success. There have been a few…
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I’ve had to split this into two because of restrictions on email size (it’s the pictures, rather than the text, before you panic), so I’ve roughly…
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So first of all the where. In The Empty Places was an anthology I co-edited back in 2016 with the aim of raising funds and awareness for Bantuan Coffee…
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Originally published in 川柳塔 March 2020
This was one of the first pieces of fiction I wrote when I moved to Japan that actually engaged with my surroundings. I kept a blog almost daily, and I…
Books of the year. Technically, novels of the year. I was going to do lists for poetry and non-fiction, as well as fiction, but I read about a dozen…
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This is another story I think of as a window. It has minimal arcs, very little information, just a snapshot moment of two people’s lives together…
So this is The Waves Burn Bright, my third novel. At its core is the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988, where 167 men lost their lives. It was published by…
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