In a narcissistic spirit of completism, I have dredged out occasional pieces – articles, book reviews and interviews – that are still online. Here they are.
ARTICLES
In 2009 I foolishly accepted an invitation to debate the climate crisis at St Andrew’s University. Here is my account of the evening for Prospect Magazine.
In 2014, I wrote a piece for Transition Free Press on ‘Climate change and the five stages of grief’. You can download it here.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry
Ask Alice by DJ Taylor
The Wilding by Maria McCann
All of the following are available behind the TLS pay-wall. Click here to search for them.
Border Bypass: a dispatch from the Edinburgh Festival 2008
Far from the Healing Light: a dispatch from the Edinburgh Festival 2009
The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
INTERVIEWS
2006 – with my friend, author Clare Dudman
2006 – with Elena Dedukhina
2008 – with Murrough O’Brien for The Independent on Sunday
2009 – for Norman Geras
2011 – this video of me gesticulating for The European Short Story Network
Interview with Manchester Climate Monthly about Beacons.
A feature by Workshy Fop on ‘writing political fiction’.