Brief conversation with a checkout lady.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Edge of the Orison
by Iain Sinclair In the Traces of John Clare's ‘Journey out of Essex’. As with his London Orbital, I found Iain Sinclair's Edge of the Orison hard-going at times, but, if you let the words in the more difficult passages simply wash over you, it's an equally enjoyable read. In this book, Sinclair is accompanied… Continue reading Edge of the Orison
Say three Hail Marys and a How's Your Father
Catholic priest ‘caught snorting cocaine in Nazi room’ shock!
Book review: ‘At Hawthorn Time’ by Melissa Harrison
An extraordinary modern rural novel.
Book review: ‘Life, Love and the Archers’ by Wendy Cope
Recollections, reviews and other prose.
Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
The Invention of Nature
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Join the cue
Police could use fire stations in Essex proposal.
Watching ‘The Bourne Identity’ with my dad…
‘Did she just say she was Mr Kane's pregnant sister?’
‘Cursed child parts’?
A very unfortunate choice of title for a play.