Ripe cowshit and Elnett hairspray are my olfactory madeleines 🖤

Could not be looking forward to this more

Beyond thrilled to share this news today. 20 years in the making. BASE NOTES is coming soon White Rabbit Books.

Thanks to the most excellent Carolyn Mendelsohn for these splendid author photographs. It’s the year of the nose.

#birdswithbeaks

Clogs, cloaks and soot on the lung. Wrote a few words on lost family photographs hidden in a garden shed for Shadows & Reflections Caught by the River 🍃

caughtbytheriver.net/2023/12/shadow…

Chef’s Kiss 🔥

Wrote a few words on the appeal of mucky old Leeds (and Dad’s corner shop) i newspaper

inews.co.uk/opinion/leeds-…

It’s ten years since I started researching and writing the life of Andrea Dunbar. What became of it - a PhD, novel and play - was beyond my expectations. I just wanted to know more about her and wrote the book that didn’t exist, the one I wanted to read.

'How long before the slugs get salted?' -- Confucius (551—479 B.C.E.)

Was a pleasure to contribute to this J.B. Priestley project (and record an audio essay at Bradford Ice Rink). Well worth an extended rummage through this splendid list of writers at BBC Canvas 👇

'You nurse a pint in Tadcaster, you nurse it tenderly, as if it is going to save you from yourself. There is always love between the drinker and the drink...'

Wrote a few words on my hometown's legendary inebriates for @brewingfolk Verdant Brewing Co 🍻

brewingfolk.co/p/my-life-in-b…