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Slow days, small kitchens
and long walks.

  1. Kitchen / 01

    A Year at the Kitchen Window

  2. Slow Travel / 02

    Walking Out of a Bad Decade

  3. Essays / 03

    Everything I Kept From My Father’s Workshop

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Books

What I read, and what stayed with me.

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Books 14 Oct 2026

Twelve Books I Bought for the Person I Hoped to Be

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She reads Russian novels and gets up early. I have yet to meet her.

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Books 15 Sep 2026

Books in the Wrong Light

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I keep trying to photograph the books I love, and they keep looking like furniture.

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Books 08 Sep 2026

A Day of Bookshops, Seen From My Sofa

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I have a weakness for videos of people walking slowly around bookshops, which is a sentence I never expected to write in public.

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Books 16 Jul 2026

A Field Guide With Someone Else’s Notes

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I bought a book about clouds for three pounds, and what I actually got was a stranger’s whole summer.

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Books 22 Apr 2026

A Bookshop Bucket List I Will Never Finish

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I keep a list of bookshops I want to visit before I die, and it grows faster than I can travel.

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Books 07 Mar 2026

The Book I Have Lent Out Four Times

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I own one book that I have bought four times, because I keep giving it to people who need it more than I do.

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