A Moment that Changed my Life .. (not) 18 Dec 2024
I need to find a "moment" for a newspaper-column pitch, where my life changed. That’s the way the gig works you see. It’s called...
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Up river in Ujung Kulon looking for Javan Rhinos ... I'd be the first to admit that Indonesia isn't exactly a top destination o... -
[ This was posted to my blog on 12th February 2020 when we were only just beginning to hear about Coronavirus - just in case you wonder why... -
This gorgeous cover-design is for my novella, ‘ The Year of the Dugong’ (Das Jahr des Dugong )’ due to be published in German on October 2... -
At Kenton ... The Stanley Nairobi Back in January I shared, on this blog, my anxieties about going back to Nairobi. ‘Never Go Back,’ was the... -
What is it like to hear someone read your writing aloud? I don't think I'd ever had that experience before. Not really; not read... -
Perhaps I shouldn't admit to this. Maybe I should post a youthful photo and pretend to be thirty five. Oh dear. This is harder than I th...
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Lava flowing into the sea I really should have consulted a map. But I'll blame the guidebooks all the same. They all say that Krakato... -
Orang A village on the Sekonyer river A Klotok Proboscis Monkeys Enough of books and book prizes and the stresses and ... -
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Never go back. I’ve been given that piece of advice plenty of times, by lots of different people, but always with reference to one partic...