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The cover of Tim Marshall's book, Prisoners of Geography

Thoughts on Marshall's bestselling geopolitics book, recollected in tranquility.

The cover of the 1990s UK Paladin edition of Robert Coover's A Night at the Movies, or You Must Remember This, featuring a collage of stock film images framed in silver and a quotation from Peter Sheridan, Daily Mail, reading: "Salvador Dali has nightmares like this"

“Ah, well, those were the days, the projectionist thinks, changing reels in his empty palace. The age of gold, to phrase a coin..."

The Heaventree Press logo, the letter H with square blocks around it and serif plinths on top, making it look like temple-like.

A community and literary publishing house I co-founded in Coventry.

Book cover of Slime: A Natural History

"The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth..."

Front cover of Hell's Cartographers edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison

"It is not much good copying science out of a textbook onto your manuscript page..."

Front cover of Astrid Alben's poetry collection, Plainspeak. A burnt orange background, with a curvy abstract white cross shape spreading from the middle, four pink, irregularly sized circles at the apexes and a black third-of-a-circle at the end of one white arm on the right.

A review as much as an explanation of the quotation, from Plainspeak beginning, "The old sun waltzes through August. Hail!"

A photograph of the Shard skyscraper in London Bridge against a wintry night sky. The purple lights on the top floors spread like an apocalypse from the tower's spiky heights.

A long overdue update on my writing development services.

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The Heaventree Press logo, the letter H with square blocks around it and serif plinths on top, making it look like temple-like.

A community and literary publishing house I co-founded in Coventry.

A series of monthly, eco-art micro-residencies funded by Roads to City of Culture, in the run up to Coventry City of Culture 2020.