Writings
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….
Sewing your past
Where do you keep your past, how do you remember it, and would you care if you forgot it?
Temples of delight
We are just back from Turin (city of baroque streets and shops selling hand-made, mens’ pyjamas)
Dolls Houses and Little Worlds
Once upon a time, when I was much stroppier than I am now, I would have looked down my nose…
How to time travel
We are at Sutton Hoo, the Museum’s Researcher and me, on a day to die for – a white sun, a pearl-grey sky…
On the Mighty Dead
True confessions: I was once a teenage geek with a passion for ancient Greece. Where this obsession came from I don’t know…
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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.
