The UK is covered in snow at the moment, bringing all the usual travel chaos and outraged claims that we should by now have learned how to command the weather to our bidding. On the morning it started I was lucky enough to not have to be anywhere in a hurry, then lucky enough to …
I had one of those rare moments of quiet synchronicity the other day when I was doing the recycling. In a pile of newspapers I noticed an old article from the New York Times, which stood out because of this amazing accompanying art by Jason Holley. The article is about the tenacity of Coyote, about …
I got over to the V&A the other day for an exhibition that Midas Crook would have loved. It’s called Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography and it’s about just that. Every photo on display has been taken without the use of a camera, and the results are fascinating. The show has a very experimental flavour (at …
Just a quick heads up to say that I’ll be reading at Lancaster Litfest on the 18th October, along with the wonderful Amy Sackville, author of The Still Point. I actually did my first ever reading at Lancaster Litfest a few years ago, and since I pretty much learned how to write while living in …
This was meant to be a post about Prince Faithful, a Swedish fairy tale you can read in English in this great book. The hitch in the plan was that the story is about a genius talking horse, and that all the horses I tried to draw were too appallingly bad to post on this …