Adapt to Survive
There are several different ways of making an adaptation. You could go down the 1980s Brideshead Revisited route, which is to take the entire text of the book, get Jeremy ...
A Family Affair
Families are like boxes of chocolates. They turn up around Christmas, full of joyful truffles and pralines, and then six days and five boxes later you’re furiously sick of them ...
Reading List: My 2011 Favourites
This year, I’ve done a lot of reading.
This is not entirely surprising. I spent the first six months of 2011 working in a book store, and the second half on ...
I Am Woman. Hear What I Want For Christmas!
This is one of the times of year that I am particularly made to notice how bad I am at being a woman. I am reminded of it in a ...
Too much of what you fancy…
These days there seems to be a literary prize for everything. Having an argument with another author? Start your own literary prize. Don’t like one prize’s shortlist? Start your own. ...
Polarbear: A Rapper-Comedian-Poet Hybrid
When I was a kid, football and wildlife programmes were the two things I got most excited about. David Attenborough told me that polar bears have no natural predators, and ...
English As A Foreign Language
I like to think I’m quite good at English. At least, I should be – I’ve practiced enough. While other little children were outside, hanging upside down from trees and ...
Shows of London
In the last month I have paid good money to see a two-foot-high furry puppet without a face doing an interpretive dance to Kate Bush’s ‘Wuthering Heights’; one man methodically ...
NaNoWriMo: Here We Go Again…
If writing was a sport, with a poem being a sprint and a blog article the 400 metres, then doing NaNoWriMo would be the equivalent of running the marathon flat-out ...
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Your Possessions Will Possess You
Your possessions are alive, and they’re coming for you. While we know that the love we give our pets is returned (unless they’re cats), we can’t ever tell how our ...