Notes for the Curious

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Grave Goods – Jeff Young

For this Grave Goods outing, we have Jeff Young; screenwriter, memoirist, and author of the highly readable and Costa Award nominated ‘Ghost Town’, an...
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Grave Goods – Edward Carey

Today’s Grave Goods guest is the author, illustrator and playwright, Edward Carey. Edward’s novels include Little (published in 20 countries), Observatory Mansions, Alva and...
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A Short Night Walk Amongst the Living and the Dead.

An after-dark wander in the company of lost deserts, nocturnal hunters and spectral ammonites. Henry Rothwell One cold December night not so long ago,...
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Grave Goods – Alan Lee

Alan Lee was born in Middlesex in 1947, and an early interest in folklore and myths has turned into a lifelong pursuit in his...
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Grave Goods – M. John Harrison

Grave Goods is a series of interviews in which the participant is invited to choose an item to accompany them to the afterlife from...
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Grave Goods – Lara Maiklem

Grave Goods is a series of interviews in which the participant is invited to choose an item to accompany them to the afterlife from...

Grave Goods – Jeff Young

For this Grave Goods outing, we have Jeff Young; screenwriter, memoirist, and author of the highly readable and Costa Award nominated ‘Ghost Town’, an...

Featured / Grave Goods

Grave Goods – Edward Carey

Today’s Grave Goods guest is the author, illustrator and playwright, Edward Carey. Edward’s novels include Little (published in 20 countries), Observatory Mansions, Alva and...

Essays / Featured / General Curiosity

A Short Night Walk Amongst the Living and the Dead.

An after-dark wander in the company of lost deserts, nocturnal hunters and spectral ammonites. Henry Rothwell One cold December night not so long ago,...

Featured / Grave Goods

Grave Goods – Alan Lee

Alan Lee was born in Middlesex in 1947, and an early interest in folklore and myths has turned into a lifelong pursuit in his...

Featured / Grave Goods

Grave Goods – M. John Harrison

Grave Goods is a series of interviews in which the participant is invited to choose an item to accompany them to the afterlife from...

Featured / Grave Goods

Grave Goods – Lara Maiklem

Grave Goods is a series of interviews in which the participant is invited to choose an item to accompany them to the afterlife from...

Featured / Grave Goods

Grave Goods – Bob Fischer.

Bob Fischer is a writer and radio broadcaster, and occasional stage-botherer. His science fiction travelogue ‘Wiffle Lever To Full!’ was reiussed by Hodder and...

Essays / General Curiosity

Gilbert White’s Swallows, by Tim Dee.

Where are we at home? What is it to feel at home? In these days and weeks, now stretching to months, when we have been...

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Grave Goods – Stewart Lee.

Today’s Grave Goods were chosen by Stewart Lee. Stewart is a writer and comedian whose Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle series won him a BAFTA....

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Grave Goods – Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey is the author of four novels, The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind, and of a memoir, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of not Sleeping....

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Grave Goods – Jim Jupp.

Jim Jupp is the co-founder of the UK independent record label, Ghost Box. He also records for the label under the name of Belbury...

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Grave Goods – Benjamin Myers

Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of interviews in which the subject is invited to reflect on their belongings and select five items to...

Grave Goods

Grave Goods – Michael Spicer

Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of occasional interviews with writers, historians, musicians, comedians and generally interesting sorts, in which they are invited to...

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Grave Goods – Tim Dee.

The Crossing It looks bad from where I am. I’m on some sort of river-side and waiting for a ferry. There are no birds,...

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Grave Goods – Richard Littler.

Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of interviews in which the interviewee selects five items they’d like to accompany them to the afterlife. This...

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Grave Goods – Mary-Ann Ochota.

What five items would you take to the grave? We ask anthropologist, writer and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota. She’s the author of Britain’s Secret Treasures...