December 2005
Christmas is about celebration and contemplation.
Every year on December 1st, Advent, I put up my ancient home-made Advent calendar, stick new chocolates inside the little doors, and take great pleasure in opening one every morning, and eating the choc with my first cup of coffee.
» Read more
November 2005
I can't believe that I am sitting down for long enough to write this column. My life has been one long round of promotion and publicity, except that promotion and publicity sounds self-seeking, and that is not what happens on the tours. Book tours are not about writers, book tours are about readers. And it should be so.
» Read more
October 2005
By the time you read this I hope I will be safely at home away from the insanity of the book tour.
It is my fault, of course, I have travelled too much this year, and am beginning to feel like a lunatic. Now that personal circumstances are conspiring to keep me at home rather sooner than I had planned, I am looking forward to being grounded.
» Read more
September 2005
Can you believe this site has been going for 5 glorious years?
» Read more
August 2005
August and what an august in England.
When the first bombs went off I had just arrived in Brazil and was woken from an early after-travel sleep by a journalist asking me what I thought of the bombing. 'What bombing?' I said, looking after over the empty square of Parati.
» Read more
July 2005
What to say about the G8 summit?
Cost 12million pounds, 22million dollars. 8 white men will decide the fate of 8 million Africans in a luxury hotel in Scotland. That's modern democracy for you.
» Read more
June 2005
So here I am in Paris, just before the Referendum on the Treaty, in 87 degrees of sun, looking from my hotel balcony over to the Eiffel Tower.
» Read more
May 2005
Oh dear. By May 5th we will have a new government, probably the same old government as before, with the same old lying Tony as President. A vote for Blair is a vote for Bush, but what can you do when the Left has become the Right, and the Right is like something appearing from a nightmare?
» Read more
April 2005
I am excited to say that I have delivered my children's book, TANGLEWRECK to Bloomsbury. It was the eleventh hour and fifty fifth minute, and I was numbering the pages in biro on the train to London, but it is finished.
» Read more
March 2005
I have returned from Poland, and I hope you like these decorative photos of me launching the British Council New Writing initiative, Faces and Places.
» Read more
February 2005
I am beginning this on a British Airways flight from Cologne to London Heathrow on a cold bright Sunday morning with snow on the ground.
» Read more
January 2005
I know that everyone reading this will have sent what help they could to the Tsunami disaster.
The Tsunami is a reminder that Nature can send plenty of trouble our way, whether it's earthquakes or drought or crop failure. We cannot predict or plan an earthquake; all the more reason then that we are responsible about the things we can predict and plan.
» Read more
|
|
|
| |
| Archives:
2009,
2008,
2007,
2006,
2005,
2004,
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000,
|
feed
