A fool on a hill

Note - this post first appeared on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. I had a lovely day last Saturday at a book event in Corsham, Wiltshire, ...

I first came across the Clara Vine books a couple of years ago. I’ve just re-read them and caught up the newest one, Solitaire - and I think...

A couple of months ago, I mentioned to a friend that I was about to go on a course on nature writing (at Ty Newydd – I wrote about it a ...

A few years ago when I was feeling rather sad, I happened to go into St Cuthbert’s in Wells to get some Christmas cards. It was Novemb...

For quite a while now, I've not read much fiction, either for adults or for children, which has really 'blown my socks off.' (Fo...

Wilding is an extraordinary book. It's horrifying, uplifting, a catalogue of things to despair about, a litany of things to be hopeful a...

You might look at this picture and think - why? Nice sky, reservoir in the distance, but otherwise there's nothing much to see - just...