I have worked - in fact, I still work - as a journalist and here are some links to things that I've written over the years. Mostly book reviews. But a few other bits and pieces too.

Book Reviews

Fiction

Who Sleeps with Katz by Todd McEwen
The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Non-fiction

Utopian Dreams by Tobias Jones
Three books about allotments
The Farm by Richard Benson
Findings by Kathleen Jamie
Princes Amongst Men by Garth Cartwright
Chernobyl Strawberries by Vesna Goldsworthy
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Moose by Kevin Jackson
The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

Books for children

The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve
Fearless by Tim Lott
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by MT Anderson

Features

Death in Children's Literature - an article for We Love This Book
The Wertheimers - an article in TATE ETC about one of my favourite paintings, John Singer Sargent’s Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer
Venezuela - a travel article about a trip to the Llanos, the plains in the south of the country.
Posh burgers - "fast food for the organic generation".
Port Eliot - a despatch from the literary festival.
My top 10 pseudonymous books.