Merry Christmas
Available to everyone over 18 until the 15th Dec. The wild story of Tanner’s Department Store and the Christmas that changed a town forever. Click on the picture or HERE to get yours now before they’re all gone! Merry Christmas.
The Horseman’s Dream Map
A rough map of the British Isles as they will be in the future, having been decimated by rising sea levels. It’s based on elevation, but also evacuation points for major cities in the event of such a disaster. Edinburgh and Glasgow sadly did not survive, but two old Navy warships are anchored where they used to…
The Bridge
I sit in a restaurant, thinking about The Bridge. The fading autumn sunlight lends the Albert Dock an air of melancholy, deepening the pits and furrows in the brickwork. Tourists still point and shop and take photographs. Smart office workers negotiate the cobbled walkways with a practised hustle, while art students drift in and out…
Short Days
‘The nights are really drawing in now, aren’t they?’ ‘Aye.’ ‘Nip in the air.’ ‘That time of year.’ The old man, who had been stalking me across the desolate golf course with a huge Great Dane, fell silent as he looked out over the estuary. ‘Got to take as much in while we can.’ It was…
The Boatyard
The wind howls up the slipway, clinking through the sleeping masts of the sick and dying vessels, bringing with it the defining scent of my childhood summers: salt, mud and a hint of sewage. The yard – like its inhabitants – is unkempt, but highly functional. By day, tattoos quiver on weather-beaten hides all round…
Working in a Department Store
It wasn’t that bad. My father often tells me about his father’s job as a steeplejack: that sounds bad. At least I was indoors and not teetering hundreds of feet above the cold, hard ground. At the interview, I didn’t have a panic attack and smash up a waiting room as Tony Black does in A Smaller Hell. Instead, I…
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