Maxim Peter Griffin joins us for this Grave Goods outing. Maxim is an artist, writer and illustrator currently specialising in the landscape of Lincolnshire for his mammoth Field Notes project which ‘is about landscape. It is about topography and time. Chalk and flint and sea marsh. The coming and going of the sea, Neolithic farmers …

In this outing, writer Edward Parnell selects which Grave Goods he’d take on the Awfully Big Adventure. Edward’s most recent book, ‘Ghostland’ is a fascinating expedition around Britain, following in the footsteps of hugely influential writers and their fictional characters, blended with threads of personal and natural history (see bottom of page for longer bio). …

For this Grave Goods adventure, we invite author Zoe Gilbert to select the five objects she’d like to accompany her on the Awfully Big Adventure. Zoe’s first novel, Folk (2018, Bloomsbury), was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2019 and adapted for BBC Radio. She is the co-editor of A Wild and Precious Life (forthcoming, Unbound), …

For this Grave Goods selection, we’re delighted to welcome Jeff Noon. Jeff was born in Manchester in 1957, trained in the visual arts and drama, and was active on the post-punk music scene before becoming a playwright, and then a novelist. His books include Vurt (Arthur C. Clarke Award), Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in …

Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of interviews in which the interviewee selects five items they’d like to accompany them to the afterlife. On this outing, we’re very happy to receive David Gange. David is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham. His current work aims to be to history as experimental archaeology is …

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 inaugural interview is, uniquely I think, with a fictional county. Hookland, the invention (or possibly discovery) of author David Southwell, is absent from conventional maps, though has an entire volume of …