Travel via reading! Here is a poet’s guide to the Lake District, which originally appeared in the Spectator Life.

Time for some fiction! Here is a short story I wrote for Standpoint Magazine. It was thoughtfully illustrated by Ellie Foreman-Peck. Thank you Ellie! Click here to read it (or scroll below…)

I loved writing this feature for Spectator Life! The surprising day jobs of famous authors.

This is a quick piece I wrote about the demise of coins for Standpoint Magazine.

When tax discs became obsolete in 2014, my thoughts turned to a young boy who had appeared on the news with his collection proudly pasted into albums.

I wrote a story on the relationship between the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Greek National Opera for ARGO Magazine.

I really enjoyed writing this piece on the artists who loved Argenteuil for Spectator Life.

Here is a culture story I wrote for Spectator Life on Venice in Art.

I wrote an article on the reclusive habits of famous authors for Spectator Life.

Here is a feature I wrote on Alter Egos for Spectator Life.

In 1972 David Bowie introduced the world to Ziggy Stardust – the alter ego he would perform as for the next nine months. Ziggy was a fully formed character in Bowie’s mind. He told William S. Burroughs in an interview in 1974 that: ‘Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a starman, so he writes “Starman,” which is the first news of hope that the people have heard […] Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starman.’ Spurred on by the success of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie went on to create Aladdin Sane less than a year later.