The Writing Hut
Alex JohnsonA behind the scenes look at the nuts and bolts of the writing life
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What books do writers read?
Nosing along friends’ bookshelves is interesting, but poking around on the bookcases of famous writers, even virtually, is even more so. This is something I particularly enjoy and indeed I am about halfway through writing a book on the home...
Ex Libris: The joy of bookplates
Perhaps the most intriguing part of a book is an element that readers add themselves, something that increases its aesthetic value while also offering an insight into the history of the volume and the personality of its owners, the bookplat...
Who lives in a house like this?
This is a picture of where Bagpuss was born, in the village of Blean near Canterbury. Or to be more exact, it’s the barn in the back garden of the former home of Smallfilms co-founder Peter Firmin. He and Oliver Postgate shot the Bagpuss se...
The Philosophy of Sheds: The Film!
Rather than the usual muse about the world of books, here’s a pleasant five minute excerpt from my A Drink with the Idler talk last week with the Idler magazine's editor Tom Hodgkinson about my latest book The Philosophy of Sheds published...
Marilyn Monroe's Ulysses
There is always a lot of interest when things owned by famous writers come to auction. Sylvia Plath’s rolling pin, Jane Austen’s childhood cup-and-ball ‘bilbocatch’ game, and Evelyn Waugh’s telescopic ear trumpet have all gone under the ham...
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I write non-fiction books on a range of subjects (art, sheds, food, music, and bookish topics). I'm also a journalist and contribute regular columns to the Idler and Fine Books magazines. I worked at the Independent newspaper 2007 2022.
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