Coming home

‘Good Christmas?’ I say. ’Fairytale,’ the book says. ‘Grimm.’ ’Are you here all week?’ ’Unlike some of us.’ ’It was…

Craving silence

‘So I was thinking,’ the book says. ‘Going anywhere nice for Christmas?’ ’Do you want a lift somewhere?’ I say.…

Here are my most frequently-read blog posts of 2018, according to my WordPress stats. First, from the Lifesaving Poems…

‘What have you learned, do you think?’ the book says. ‘Do you mind, I’m trying to have a bath!’ ‘Now…

I am delighted to be publishing Deck Shoes, a book of enthusiasms, influences and memoir, with Impress Books, next year.…

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing…

Next year is going to be a big year for me. I am going to have two new books out…

‘Do you mind if I ask you a question?’ the book says. ‘Why are you wearing my slippers?’ I say.…

‘You don’t sound very ambitious,’ the book says. ‘And good morning to you, too!’ I say. ‘I mean,’ the book…

‘What do you want?’ says the book. ‘Who’s asking?’ I say. ‘Me,’ says the book. ‘I am asking.’ ‘What do…

I am lying on the bed staring at the ceiling, detoxing from the day, as I do. ‘You all right?’…

I have been writing recently about going deeper, not wider. Listening to music I already possess, reading the books already…

As I was saying the book that I bought and then did not read and which caught my eye recently is Now…

The book is looking at me from across the room. It is dressed smartly, but not to impress. It looks…

So in an effort to live deeply and not widely, amongst other things I have been looking at the shelves…

In The Year of Living Deeply I am trying to attend to the things which feed me very much (family;…

Remember when you got the news of the accident- or the illness- in the life of someone more laced into…

Below Zero We are at a party that doesn’t love us. At last the party lets its mask drop and…