Best time to read about England is when you’re not there

Amazingly, just shy of 1000 of you loaned Hermit out from the library over the past year!!

Also spotted in @heffersbookshop by my sister @cctranslates and my friend in @Tate - thank you so much!

In just over a week I’ll be in Amsterdam talking at G10 Festival. All the talks will be live-streamed, should the Netherlands be a bit of a stretch. It’s going to be a fascinating weekend. I’m honoured to be among these speakers. Hope you can join us!

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First event in Europe! It a real honour to have been invited to talk alongside such bright and interesting minds at the G10 Arts, Philosophy and Economics Festival in November. (Carlo Rovelli spoke here, for crying out loud!) Weekend in Amsterdam?

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Hermit spotted on the table in the Tate Modern alongside my fave Weird Walk has made my weird day, weird week and entire weird life....

I’ll be doing this online writers salon Thurs 29th from 1-2.30pm on pilgrimage, hermitage and creative solitude with the brilliant authors and wanderers Gail Simmons and Phoebe Smith. Hosted by wonderful author Vik Bennet who also took this photo. Link here:
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I wrote this last year for The Scotsman print magazine and have been meaning to post it ever since. Despite a lot of my big face, it’s mostly about Scottish Hermits from Sara Maitland to Saint Cuthbert…

Hermit paperback! Love and thanks to everyone who made this book possible, to those who made it readable, beautiful, and everyone who has embraced it. I’m proud of this book and plan to toast it beneath the stars, beside a fire, and holding a measure of rum at the earliest possible opportunity…

Hermit is out in paperback a week today—25th Jan, adorned with some lovely new quotes!

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Hermit has been blessed with a kindle deal for this month. Only 99p, truly a miracle!

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Really touched to be told The Landmark Trust librarian Michael Williams has put Hermit in every property on Lundy— including Tibbetts and The Vestry, its spiritual homes. Eternally grateful to the islanders for embracing this book and that little rock, which is wedged in my heart

Nothing like a new Niall Griffiths to wake you up! Out soon with repeater books…

Finished this a few weeks ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it. It’s an incredible little book. Weird, funny and very smart. Out now with @serpentstail

I wrote about my adventures in something I’ve long been curious about, pigeon fanciers and fancying! In the new issue of The Fence ..