Writings
How (not) to write another book
Once upon a time when I was young and naive I thought you only had to get one book published and another and another...
Learning from Svetlana
Facts are facts, but stories imply people and emotions and beginnings and endings, and museums are full of them.
How to make the Museum of You
When I made the Museum of Me I used one of the old metal trunks that had come down through the family . . .
Telling it like a story
Sometimes an idea strikes you with such freshness and force that you think you are the first person in the world ever to have it.
Reading poetry in an epidemic time
Days of heart-breaking beauty – lipstick-red camellias and washes of green-white blossom…
Family archives and fictional museums
So here I am, so hungry for fresh air that I am outside in the garden, wrapped up in my winter…
On thing magic in museums
Have been reading Marina Warner’s book on the history of the Arabian Nights…
The Charismatic Ghost Of Enid Porter
Sometimes it’s the small museums that have the biggest ideas, the best back stories – and the biggest wonders.
Mummies, Curses And The British Museum
It’s midwinter and London is deep in darkness and freezing fog. The streets are muffled up with silence…
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Story Talk is about writing books and getting published, and aims to capture three-years-worth of thoughts and ideas that bubbled to the surface of my mind whilst I was writing my book.
