Now that my book, ‘The Years of the Wizard’ is finished and getting published I am going through a transformation.
Writings: Story Telling
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.
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.
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…
Museums, Things and Fairy Tales
Through my letter box there comes by serendipity a review copy of Stephanie Victoire’s fairy tales for grown ups, ‘The Other World, It Whispers’.
A Brief History of Fictional Museums
So here’s another reason why museums should exist – because they enable novelists and artists….
