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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 DiaryResult
The days are beginning to meld into each other and it’s only August, the beginning of my working year that will end next June. Such a long way off yet it’ll…
The Obsessive DiaryFounder of ALLi, Orna Ross, LIVE with Eleanor Anstruther
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The Obsessive DiaryGhosts
Housekeeping: I’ll be LIVE in conversation with Orna Ross tomorrow, Wednesday 13th 12:30pm BST. Orna is the founder of The Alliance of Independent Authors…
The Obsessive DiaryDrive Them Wild
Back in the day we made stickers and t-shirts and proclaimed the wares of Daizy Shop in Nimbin, Kaz’s shop that she brought to markets in her battered estate…
The Obsessive DiaryThe Hand of WPR
A day of surprises. I met with Vicki Lesley for a zoom, both us feeling there was something good to be mined from our connection and we weren’t wrong. An…
The Obsessive DiaryEleanor Anstruther & Cherry Coombe in conversation
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The Obsessive DiaryA Network of Lights
Housekeeping: I’ll be in conversation with Cherry Coombe today, 2pm BST. Subscribe now, or keep an eye 👀 on Notes for when we go LIVE. I noticed Cherry’s skill…
The Obsessive DiaryLunch
Worked. Took M & B to the station, realised we’d forgotten the crumble, turned back, got it, drove again, they missed the train but got the next one. Rode with…
The Obsessive DiaryHarvest
Things are going to change around here. I began work this morning, and those precious first few hours of the day before the world encroaches which had been the…
The Obsessive DiaryEleanor Anstruther & S.E. Reid in conversation
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The Obsessive DiaryEngland
Housekeeping: I’ll be LIVE in conversation with S.E. Reid today 4pm BST / 8am PDT. Sally writes Talebones, an ongoing collection of character-driven…
The Obsessive DiaryEasy Does It
There are eddies in a house, places where things collect. I’ve come home to the river needing clearing. The chattels from my mother’s death take up a wall in…
The Obsessive DiaryDoor
I think I figured it out. Grief-Magdalene-Prayer, and yesterday I went in search of the Queensbury house. I remembered the road, its roof was in sight of our…
The Obsessive DiaryHere Hare Here
Much as I want to get away from categorisations, it does tend to be the men who find the confrontations of this house more challenging than the women…
The Obsessive DiaryImpolite Notice
The Literary Obsessive is on holiday The Literary Obsessive is winning at tennis, losing at backgammon, getting over zealous at poker, becoming blasé at…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Samuél Lopez Barrantes
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The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with Tommy Swerdlow
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The Obsessive Diary8 Q LIVE with … Chris Best
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The Obsessive DiaryFuneral
Remarkably, earlier this week a friend of the family found that bowler hat while cleaning out a cupboard. My mother had leant it to her years ago and they’d…
The Obsessive DiaryDavid Roberts & Eleanor Anstruther: a conversation about US & UK generational wealth
Thanks everyone who joined David and I on our LIVE feed earlier this week. We got together to talk about generational wealth in the UK & US; the differences…
The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with… Marc Typo
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The Obsessive DiaryLive with Eleanor Anstruther
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The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with … Simon K Jones
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The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with… Sherman Alexie
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The Obsessive Diary8Q LIVE with … Erica Drayton
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The Obsessive DiaryIn conversation with… Jamie Greenwood
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The Obsessive Diary8Q LIVE with… Hamish McKenzie
Thank you Simon Haisell, Marty Neumeier, Dr. Amber Hull, Laura Washburn Hutton, Georgina Hamilton, and many others for tuning into my live video with Hamish…
The Obsessive Diary8 Questions for... Sean Mcnulty
Sean McNulty is the creative behind Auraist, a publication dedicated toPicking the best-written books. In his own words: Auraist’s main purpose, then: to…
The Obsessive DiaryA Salon in New York
What an evening it was. The glitz, the glamour, the generosity of spirit; our hosts, David & Debbie created an event so overwhelmingly beautiful and carefully…
The Obsessive DiaryTom Cox & Eleanor Anstruther LIVE
Thank you Bill Bishop, Chloe Hope, Isabel Cowles Murphy, Ros Barber, Chris Stanton, and many others for tuning into my live video with Tom Cox! Join me for my…
The Obsessive DiaryMichele Howarth and Eleanor Anstruther in conversation
Thank you Kim Stallwood, Robyn Young, Lee Penman, Sam Clare, Kerry, and many others for tuning into my live video with Michele Howarth! Join me for my next…
The Obsessive DiarySam Jordison & Eleanor Anstruther in conversation
Thank you Simon K Jones, Mr. Troy Ford, Johnathan Reid, Amy Oscar, Andy Black, and many others for tuning into my live video with SamJordison! Join me for my…
The Obsessive Diary39
She took a tea towel from the draining board and ran outside, grabbed Paul by the arm to stop him rolling in it. A good wipe produced his face looking sorry…
The Obsessive Diary13
Annabel was damp, cold, frightened and bruised all over. She’d hitched a lift in a van, it had felt like the last ride out of there, and been tossed about like…