Writing about art and nature at Outside, Guardian, BBC / First novel, HOVEL, out with Strange Light – Penguin Random House 🌙
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Mar 21
I have an essay in @globeandmail today about why it is quite nice to leave a notebook on a bench and see who writes in it.
May we leave notebooks and pens in random places until they're more full of nonsense than an ancient burial ground.
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Mar 14
I tried to make an unboxing video for HOVEL, out next week. Then I realised my address was in all the frames. I was glad of the mistake, for the video I made was quite bad.
This video I took with my dog (I froze the book for reasons that no longer make sense) is also bad.
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Mar 12
Do you like free giveaways? HOVEL is currently available in a free giveaway at 49th Shelf.
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Mar 6
For the algorithm to love me, I need to be posting videos captioned, 'why does Emma Stone's face look so different?'
But I do not want to post a video of Emma Stone's beautiful face.
Of course the algorithm will love me for this. An algorithm is not capable of love.
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Mar 5
Sheep are everywhere. They are in the fields and they are on the cover of many books. I can think of at least three books with sheep on the cover of them. Are there more?
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Mar 3
I used Pinterest to make a mood board for the potential HOVEL cover that I could easily share with my editor.
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Feb 20
My novel HOVEL, out in March, is a little dreamlike. Recurring images include silk, rats, plums, foxes, spiders, wolves, apples, ice, snow, shadows, stars, mould, candles.
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Feb 14
My novel HOVEL, out mid-March, is a book that feels both funny and sad – maybe reading it is like being with a person who is laughing and crying all at once.
Here's a copy living on top of an old birds' nest.
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Jan 5
Do you have the flu?
Do you need a remedy that may or may not work?
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24 Jun 2025
It can feel awkward and strange, asking your favourite authors (who you do not know, but whose work you love) for blurbs.
I recommend it.
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12 May 2025
Trying and absolutely failing to understand some of the notes my past self made to my future self in my notebook.
As in: journey to a hut where the knee of a drunken Finn was awaiting one's small, warmed buttocks
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Ailsa Ross retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensArt
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4 Mar 2025
Going through old photos and wondering what this guy is doing now
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