Meet you back here in January.
Our first conversation in 2021 will be with musician Alan Doyle, who tells us of his new collection of stories: “It sort of became a forecast of the rest of my adult life so far, where I just constantly found myself in situations that were so much more worldly than me.”
Can you tell us a little about yourself? Working backwards. My first novel comes out on the feast day of St Isidore the Farmer (May 15), apocalypse notwithstanding: it’s called Dirty…
Congratulations on your new book! Where did the idea for The Smiling Land come from? In an interest in writing a love letter to home, And about how I thought…
“Matilda,” her father told her once, “there’s this one kind of mushroom, they look a whole lot like chanterelles, but let it be known – they’re not chanterelles. They’re called Jack-o’-Lanterns and they make a person quite sick.”