What is the oldest story in the world? How can we possibly know what the first story was? What would it have looked like? Would we recognise it as a story, and would anything in it mean anything to us today? These are questions that in all probability cannot be answered definitively, but I’m going…
Month: September 2014
Don’t call it glory
Some thoughts on writing a story for Walker Books’ anthology The Great War. This piece first appeared in Carousel magazine. In 2005 I published a novel set during the First World War; The Foreshadowing. Set in 1916, the denouement of the novel takes places during an engagement of the Battle of the Somme. This, and…
Undiagnosis 