Silt Road – Exhibition
My head is swimming with the toxic high of car paint, having just spray-painted a dozen mdf back-boards to frame an exhibition of images that came…
My head is swimming with the toxic high of car paint, having just spray-painted a dozen mdf back-boards to frame an exhibition of images that came…
John Andrews has written a really great review of Silt Road for Caught by the River. “Silt Road is not a book centred solely around the post-millennial…
Another (mostly) good review and a generous spread in the Telegraph. You can read it online here. Sinclair McKay (author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park…
Melissa Harrsion, author of the novel Clay, posted a great essay and a very nice review of Silt Road in the weekend Financial Times. You can…
Chatto has sent me two off-the-press copies of Silt Road and it looks fab. They have done an awesome job on the cover and design, the…
Caught by the River correspondent John Andrews and myself will be putting on a readings and Q and A event at the Brighton Festival in May. I’ll be…
Sharing a post I wrote for Caught by the River. Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 2013 will be National Mills Weekend, an annual festival of…
There’s something overwhelmingly gripping about the idea of a buried river. It is the thought of that life trapped underground, like a person buried alive, scratching at…
Almost exactly a year after Radio 3 broadcast five podcasts on the work of W.G. Sebald, personal reflections by critics and writers who knew him (Anthea…
Slowly we are waking up to the fact that we have in southern England an almost unique eco-system comparable for its natural wonder with any on…