The summer had been full of dry heat, marking the fields with the brittle paleness of its passing. From the train windows, each county seemed more drained of vitality the […]
‘A bad winter. I couldn’t lay a hand on them, prevented as if by a charm. I huddled in my cave, grinding my teeth, beating my forehead with my fists […]
Review: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level, Gay Hendricks (2009)
If you’ve ever questioned why, just at those moments when you are about to achieve something important, or about to have a great time – or are in the throes […]
‘My son, he reads Terry Pratchett. Have you read any Terry Pratchett? I couldn’t get on with it.” I daren’t look round so I don’t know what she looks like, […]
The coffee machine needs coffee beans. This somehow becomes an incredible injustice, that I have to fill it up, have to attend to this chore when I should be writing. […]
The queue for coffee comes and goes, there is no rhyme to it. Each time I look up it seems to have assumed a different form. Now it is loosely […]
There’s something rather squeamish about the phrase ‘having you in my ears each week’. I wince slightly when I hear it, my shoulders shrugging involuntarily as I cross the busy […]
This long-read felt surprisingly familiar in its suggestions, exploring ideas about the impact of video games, including online multiplayers, on how people approach their lives and how they may or […]