Recharging myself with the world.

Always a kick to see my name in the TLS, and a pleasure to write about this excellent play.

‘Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise’, Shakespeare & Company’s founder wrote on the wall. What a dream for a writer to experience that legendary hospitality. Isn’t it nice when dreams come true?

A wonderful weekend talking about my book & staying in ‘the writer’s room’

My New Year’s resolution is to drink more good cups of tea in the great outdoors.

Legacy of a storm. We negotiated our way through the fallen branches on the way from Lynmouth to Watersmeet. Bearing witness to the fallen centuries on New Year’s Eve.

Honouring the ancestors today, on my father’s side. Here at Simonsbath on Exmoor, we have planted a tree for them.

An extraordinary novel. Harvey proves how urgently we need scientists and artists to work in tandem: scientists to give us a clear view of this one precious earth, artists to enable us to see it.