Welcome to Grave Goods, an occasional series of interviews in which we ask a person of interest to select five items to accompany them to the afterlife. For this outing, we have the magnificent Becky Wragg Sykes. Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and …

Welcome to Grave Goods, an occasional series of interviews in which we ask a person of interest to select five items to accompany them to the afterlife. For this outing, we have the rather splendid Nicola Chester. Nicola Chester is a nature writer who lives as a tenant in a former dairyman’s cottage below the …

Welcome to Grave Goods, an occasional series of interviews in which we ask a person of interest to select five items to accompany them to the afterlife. For this outing, we have the rather good Isy Suttie. Isy is a comedian and writer, has appeared in Channel Four’s ‘Peep Show’ and ‘Man Down’, and written …

For this Grave Goods outing, we have Jeff Young; screenwriter, memoirist, and author of the highly readable and Costa Award nominated ‘Ghost Town’, an addictive, lucid and intriguing account of his formative years in the city of Liverpool. Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffyoungwriter As always, the guest is offered a selection of objects drawn from five categories – …

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 Irva: the Twins Who Saved a City, and of Heap House, Foulsham, and Lungdon (the YA Iremonger Trilogy). His most recent novel, The Swallowed Man, is the story of Geppetto’s two …

Alan Lee was born in Middlesex in 1947, and an early interest in folklore and myths has turned into a lifelong pursuit in his career as a book illustrator and designer for films, most notably for of the works of JRR Tolkien. In 2004 he received an Academy Award for art direction on Peter Jackson’s …

Grave Goods is a series of interviews in which the participant is invited to choose an item to accompany them to the afterlife from the following categories: Tools of the Trade – a tool/implement without which you’d be lost, whether it’s a pen, trowel, notepad, bottle-opener or scanning electron microscope. Food for the Journey – a …

Grave Goods is a series of interviews in which the participant is invited to choose an item to accompany them to the afterlife from the following categories: Tools of the Trade – a tool/implement without which you’d be lost, whether it’s a pen, trowel, notepad, bottle-opener or scanning electron microscope. Food for the Journey – a …

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 Stoughton in 2018, and he writes regularly for the Fortean Times and Electronic Sound magazine; and for his ‘Haunted Generation’ blog at www.hauntedgeneration.co.uk. He has recently toured with two live shows: ‘Summer …