I have never attended a writing festival before. There was always an excuse. I didn’t have money to spend on such an extravagance, I wasn’t a proper writer (this one worked for many years until I actually got an agent in 2019), I didn’t have time, between renovations, working and looking after holiday makers (this …
My Jericho Writers York Festival of Writing 2022 takeaways Read More »
’So do you like it here?’ asked the English tourist, while I was on duty at the fruit shop. ’Have you ever wondered about the meaning of life?’ I asked instead of an answer, slicing up a rotund pumpkin and scattering seeds all over the counter. ’Yeah,’ he probed. ’Well, I found it,’ I said …
Sri Lanka Diaries Part 4: A Typical Day at Millennium Elephant Foundation Read More »
It was at the writing retreat back in September that I started reading Cheryl Strayed’s memoir ’Wild’. I was asked to pick a book that was close to my own story and analyse the way it was written. I chose the passage of her mother’s death and read it out loud: ’I howled and howled …
‘O brave new world that has such people in’t’ – The Tempest, William Shakespeare I left for Cuba clutching Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ at chest. I was engrossed in it already by the time the plane tucked its wheels under and started the 11 hours long journey to Havana and didn’t find …
Discovering a city is like discovering another person. At first, it’s the obvious stuff that needs to be crossed off the list: the Eiffer Tower, the Colisseum, the Sagrada Familia, those obvious things that everyone knows about. But once you’ve done that, what’s left is discovering the less obvious, it’s time to dig deep and …
