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The Magic Room

My parents bought their current house in 1999 and, for the first few years that they lived there, there wasn’t a lot of it. Due to the limited space upstairs, when I came to stay I slept on a couple of large sofa cushions in the tiny living room,

Writing

A True Story About Two Trees, And The Book They Made

With all the snow and ice in The Peak District last winter, and the extreme elevation of the house I was renting, there were few occasions when I could get my car up the rutted track leading to the lane down to the nearest village. Going further afield always felt

adam thorpe

NINE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE INSIDE MY HOUSE

SHIRT A lot of my wardrobe is what you might call double-old: it was purchased in the mid-to-late 1990s, when you could still inexpensively buy used clothes from the 1960s and 70s that were made to fit people of a relatively common body shape. This shirt is not the double-old