Essays and journalism
Pieces I have written for magazines and newspapers between novels, newest first, with where each was first published. Publication names are samples.
The house that kept the weather out
Essay, first published in Saltwater Quarterly
My grandmother’s house on the coast had four doors and she used one. On what we keep out, and what gets in anyway.
On rereading in winter
Column, first published in The Northern Review
Every January I reread the same three novels. This year I tried to work out why.
Closing time at the baths
Report, first published in The Lantern, weekend magazine
Four public pools in the south-west closed this year. I spent a week at the last one, talking to the people who swam there.
Notes from the strandline
Essay, first published in Field & Margin
A year of walking the same beach every morning and writing down what the sea left. The notebook that became Tidewrack.
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