I had the lovely experience last week of receiving some copies of Dziewczyna o szklanych stopach, which is the Polish edition of The Girl with Glass Feet. Seeing your work in another language is both marvellous and surreal. That David Copperfield thing holds true – that a book feels like a child leaving home for …
Just a quick note to say that the good folks at Litro magazine have asked me to write a weekly blog for them. I’m going to try to keep its contents quite distinct from this one, and it’s going to publish every Friday. You can read it here, if you like.
Check this out… sound familiar? Once upon a time there was a mummy bear, a daddy bear and a baby bear, right? Not really. Once upon a time there was a fox… I’ve never really been a fan of Goldilocks. It always seemed as sickly as Mummy Bear’s porridge. Goldilocks herself was the problem. She …
Felt like quite a momentous day today. I sat there in the thunderstorm (seems to be a thunderstorm every day this summer) watching the BBC coverage of Harry Patch’s memorial service. He was the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, in which he battled at Ypres. With …
I was back in Dorset the other day and had the chance to go to the county museum in Dorchester. I hadn’t been there for several years, but wanted to go very specifically to see this fellow… This is an Ooser, of which there were probably more, if not several, kept throughout Dorset. One by …