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A Booze Foraging Walk In The West Country
A piece I wrote for this weekend's Financial Times Magazine.
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Blakeney
Foraging In Norfolk
My latest Guardian dispatch from Norfolk: on foraging, courgettes, Richard Mabey, and preparing for the apocalypse.
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Porpoises, a "tug off" war, and the meaning of being local
My latest country column for the Guardian.
american fiction
Straight Man By Richard Russo
The second of my columns for The Guardian Books section.
alpacas
The Day An Alpaca Flobbed On My Beard
My latest country column for The Guardian's Life And Style Section.
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The Feud by Thomas Berger
A piece for Guardian Books
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How To Write A Literary Novel: A Few Pointers For Getting Started
* Writing a literary novel is incredibly tough, so you should be well-prepared for the fact that life is not going to be normal while you're doing it, and your social life will fall by the wayside. The process takes untold dedication and sacrifice. Though it's
cornwall
Walking Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula
A piece I wrote for last weekend's Financial Times.
countryside
"I'M GOING TO HAVE A WAZ ON THE COMPOST NOW."
My latest country column - on gardening with my dad - for The Guardian's Life And Style Section.
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Why I Love Scarecrows: A Column For The Guardian
The first of my new monthly countryside columns for the The Guardian's Life And Style section...
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Happy 20th Birthday Sloan: The Band That Most Made Me Want To Write For A Living
All writers have an early turning point or moment of encouragement that kicks off their career in earnest, gives them that little extra push to makes them believe they are capable of doing what they love well enough to be paid for it. I think I have a few, but
dads
Marathon Man: A Diary (Part Three)
Read part one. Read part two. April 13th, 2008: The Big Day Despite my dad’s boundless enthusiasm for being observed in his athletic endeavours, I decided not to join him and my mum for the start of the marathon today, feeling that at that point he would be better