Here are links to recent book reviews I’ve published on this website. Look out for more soon.
These poems benefit from being read aloud, even if only to yourself.
Below you will find two versions of a book review. The first is the one I submitted to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine, while the second is the version he actually published.
Below you will find two versions of a book review. The first is the one I submitted to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine, while the second is the version he actually published.
Three reviews of the same book: a straight version, an outlandish version and the published version.
After each story there is an interview with its author.
As the title suggests, it’s about Basil Boothroyd’s (mis) adventures as a public speaker. In an anecdote I found particularly amusing …
This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace, and a host of other areas and people.
You settle down to read, and the subject of this particular vignette could be you: a teacher, a student, a mother, a brother.
Weimar, the birthplace of the optimistic but short-lived republic of the same name, a place called “home” by Goethe, Liszt and Nietzsche and a mere eight kilometres from Buchenwald.
No book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?