For February's Substack I wrote about the perennial problem of how to start. Read Beginning: Conquering the Blank Page for free here

My first Substack of the year goes the full Nigel Slater. I wrote about surviving the culinary delights of the 1970s in About a Boyhood. Read it for free here

Tremendously proud to be one of the judges for the 2025 REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE. Here's the 10-strong longlist. An impossible choice, and so many books narrowly missed inclusion. But it represents some of the best of what small presses are currently publishing. More details here