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The Obsessive Diary
I write a diary and publish it. What could possible go wrong...
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The Obsessive DiaryTwo things
I’ve come down to the farm for ten days of rest and recuperation; a month of The Covid Talks and guess what? I’ve caught covid, or something like it. I feel…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Literary Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Jane Ratcliffe
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The Obsessive DiaryThe Covid Talks
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The Obsessive DiaryThe Covid Talks
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The Obsessive DiaryThe Covid Talks
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The Obsessive DiaryThe Covid Talks
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The Obsessive DiaryIt was a busy week
It was a busy social week of Things. Monday & Tuesday I was at Strathmore Studios recording Fallout - it’ll be out on Audible in time for Christmas… Tuesday…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Covid Talks
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The Obsessive DiaryYou don’t know me
On the drive from the Magdalene cave I thought of my mum. Of course I did, she is everywhere here in France, as is my dad, but especially I thought of her…
The Obsessive DiaryMagdalene
It was our second attempt to reach the cave of Mary Magdalene. Our first last year stymied by fire risk. Incendie, said the woman behind the desk of the…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Covid Talks
That was the year of the Oculus when B broke their foot. The year of vaccines and masks, the first summer of covid. God knows I’m not wild about being…
The Obsessive DiaryThe River of my Thoughts
Carnival took up Monday but I kept it on the low-down, a quick early morning dance at the wings of the parade which passed so close to my flat I practically…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Literary Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Sam Baker
Thank you Elissa Altman, Sara Santa Clara, Angie Browne, Jeanne Elbe, Sophie Ellen Jones, and many others for tuning into my live video with sam baker! Join me…
The Obsessive DiaryMore Carnival ...
Dipped and dived, ear plugs in and avoiding the main drag which thumped and ground at an almost standstill so close to the flat I thought the windows might…
The Obsessive DiaryCarnival
The thing about carnival is it begins long before it begins. And I’m talking for us, the receivers, the partiers and dance-abouters not the givers, the great…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Literary Obsessive in conversation with Lauren Elkin
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The Obsessive DiaryDeep in the forest
Each morning I wake at 5:03am. If my brain knows why it’s not telling. 5:03am and the dread of what’s the point yet I must because what else is there when…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Oliver Radclyffe
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The Obsessive DiaryFelt tips
He said he wasn’t very good and he’d filled in the crease where his nose met his cheek with the felt tip pen he was using to annotate his sheet music but this…
The Obsessive DiaryQuiet
I’ve come down to the farm for a few days. The silence is sweet music. When I arrived on Thursday afternoon I stopped on the stairs, listening. Nothing. No…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Stories We Tell
* I will never belong (in my family). I will always be shut out and rejected. I’ve been listening to Tara Brach (god I love her) and thinking about the stories…
The Obsessive DiaryYou're Not Alone
So the story goes I danced on his feet. Did I? There comes a point in childhood tales when fact and fiction merge. They are flash cards; nothing before…
The Obsessive DiaryMagnificence
He came to the door looking for the key to the electrics box. Actually I heard the ship’s bell clang on the gate and looked out through michaelmas daisies to…
The Obsessive DiaryDouble Spiral
I can’t read anything since. My eye slips over other people’s words like butter, as if they are coated, I cannot stick. It is a double spiral: no matter where…
The Obsessive DiaryVicki & Lesley & Eleanor Anstruther - FALLOUT
Thank you Chloe Hope, Pandora Dylan Gorman, Francesca Bossert, Marc’s Burning Bridge, Shari Field, and many others for tuning into my live video with Vicki…
The Obsessive DiaryI have noticed
I have noticed. I’ve noticed how I miss the morning chats, coffee in bed together, not talking about you but talking about them, our guests, the dramas and…
The Obsessive DiaryGoleen Heights
Glasgow airport alive with Scottish lads off to the game in Boston. I’m assuming it’s Boston. I’m assuming it’s football. I’m not really keeping an eye on…
The Obsessive DiaryOn the road... 🏴
The beautiful and the damned at Electric House on Tuesday night where I got dinner before the kitchen closed, I sat at my favourite corner table from which I…
The Obsessive DiaryLIVE! Unfixed: Uncut with Eleanor Anstruther
Kimberly Warner is one of the best interviewers on this platform, she’s also a marvellous writer in her own right and a great friend. So who better to spend an…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Geraint Anderson
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The Obsessive DiaryThird Life
Home to the farm as Solstice approaches, I left London on Friday after breakfast with J, H and others; in those morning hours as the market crowds with…
The Obsessive DiaryWe finished our books! Now what?
Thank you Sara Santa Clara, Angie Browne, Francesca Bossert, and many others for tuning into my live video with Simon K Jones! Join me for my next live video…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Elissa Altman
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The Obsessive DiaryCellular
I put my glasses in the washing machine and left my AirPod case on the desk and went out for breakfast listening to the last chapter of Permission by Elissa…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Obsessive LIVE in conversation with Eve Chase
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The Obsessive DiarySouvenir
How can I not begin this post with a snap of Augusta Sagnelli , Creative Director & Co Founder of Souvenir Magazine , caught in a Paris café with the latest…
The Obsessive DiaryOcean Vuong
Ocean Vuong last night at The Emmanuel Centre in London with Andrew Wille and K and others - Andrew gave me the tip off and gathered us, he has seen him many…
The Obsessive DiaryGentle, Angry Women
When I got back to the farm last night there appeared to be a large triangular black figure with two points of burning flame on its head in the stone circle…
The Obsessive DiaryLive in conversation with Black Sheep Mom
Thank you Emily Charlotte Powell, Pia Hinckle, Lisa GK, Roz Edwards, and many others for tuning into my live video with Bridget Young! Join me for my next live…
The Obsessive DiaryBarefoot in Sri Lanka
Hitchhiking barefoot in Sri Lanka. That was the news this week by phone accompanied by photos of those bare feet but as P pointed out when we met for lunch at…
The Obsessive DiaryLive in conversation with Louise Fein
Thank you Julie Russell, Craig M. Slater, and many others for tuning into my live video with Louise Fein! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a…
The Obsessive DiaryWip Flash
Who remembers the old Colony rooms in Soho where Francis Bacon fell off bar stools and Lucien Freud gave those eyes? Not me, I’m making that bit up but I…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Jessica Fellowes
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The Obsessive DiaryUrban Jungle
Electric House, early afternoon, the low arched room that stretches with opulence was scantily clad; perfect young women with perfect young hair scraped back…
The Obsessive DiarySonder
Sonder: the word I want written on my arm in tiny script so that it reminds me. Sonder is the awareness that every stranger you encounter has a life as vivid…
The Obsessive DiaryFALLOUT Launch Party LIVE! with Eleanor Anstruther
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The Obsessive DiaryJohn Proctor is the Villain
Holy s**t. I’ve seen a fair bit of theatre in my time, mostly forgotten, but the greats will never be. The inaugural meeting of the We Three Bookclub happened…
The Obsessive DiaryBlue Dot
Easter was B at the farm for a fortnight and me coming and going for the first week but for the second, a whole week together, was a gentle delight. Just me…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Fiona Melrose
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The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with creator of AskMyStack, Luke Deasy
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The Obsessive DiaryA love letter to the farm
Dear Lodge Farm, You and I have been through a lot together. When I came here you were three hundred years old and I was twenty-five. Or maybe, in the way of…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Angie Browne
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The Obsessive DiaryHappy Birthday to me
It’s my birthday. Fifty-five today and I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be which has got to be the best birthday present of all. Birthday…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Marc Typo
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The Obsessive DiaryAll Belongs
In my favourite place in the world, life is pain au chocolate writ large by morons with bombs and the floured hands of boulangère who rise before dawn. The…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Patrick Gale
Due to a slight tech situation, the end of our conversation was cut off. But never fear! We jumped on zoom, and here it is: This is a public episode. If you'd…
The Obsessive DiaryChapter One
First thing’s first: I will be LIVE in conversation with (First and Last Woofter), the one and only Patrick Gale, Thursday 3pm UK. It’s his first foray into…
The Obsessive DiaryArt is Activism
“Books are radical technology” said Louisa Joyner on the Main Stage yesterday and although London Book Fair can sometimes feel like the slick debut from an…
The Obsessive DiaryPresenting: The Hybrid Toolkit
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The Obsessive DiaryThe Hybrid Publishing Toolkit
Morning all, Just a quick head’s up for all those thinking of going the Hybrid route. In line with London Book Fair happening all week (and yes, I’ll be there…