A monthly postcard from the English countryside: nature, the rural year, and a village newsletter. Book news and other personal updates at the top.

My first novel, Clay, came out in 2013. Come with me as I read it aloud, and offer some off-the-cuff thoughts and impressions on each chapter.

I spent Christmas 2024 in a little cottage by the sea. It didn't go quite as planned.

Occasional thoughts, musings and uncategorisable ephemera

Posts I don't want to appear on my home page