There are more changes afoot here on WillBuckingham.com. After several years, I’m forsaking the old design for something a bit more clear, uncluttered and streamlined. I’ll be going live with the new site later this morning. After that, it will take a few weeks to update everything so that it works as well as it should. Until then, things will …
I’ve just had a long-overdue spring-clean of my website, and have spruced it up a bit. Now that I’ve given the site a small overhaul, things should be a bit tidier and zippier. The impetus behind this is partly the looming launch date of my book Stealing With the Eyes, which is due out in mid-May. It seemed a shame …
A year or so back, I was invited by the Laurence Sterne Trust to contribute to their exhibition Paint Her to Your Own Mind, an exhibition with 147 artists and writers all contributing their visions of the ravishing Widow Wadman to fill the blank page left by Laurence Sterne in Tristram Shandy. As an ex art student in long-term recovery, …
This year marks a decade since the publication of my first book, Cargo Fever. As it is a Sunday morning, and I have nothing else to do, I thought I would mark the occasion by translating the titles of all my books into emoji. I’ve included my forthcoming books (😱🏦🔫) ➕👀 and Elee Kirk’s 📸🏛💭 on the list as well, …
I’m very pleased to say that Elee Kirk‘s monograph, Snapshots of Museum Experience: Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography will be published by Routledge in July this year. The book is drawn from Elee’s PhD thesis, and from the book outline that she and I agreed upon before her death in 2016. Over the last year, I have been wrangling it …
Recently, I’ve been working through the final proofs of my travel memoir, Stealing With the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia, and the book is coming out from Haus Publishing in a couple of months’ time. But I’ve also been taking time out from proof-reading to re-build from scratch my website about the Tanimbar islands, Tanimbar.org.uk. I set up the …
I’ve just finished the final edits for travel memoir, “Stealing With the Eyes“, and the book is coming out from Haus Publishing in May 2018. I thought that in advance of the publication, I should post a a sneak preview of some of the images from the book over on my Wayward Philosophy blog. There are some images of the …
狗年大吉! It’s the year of dog, and I’m delighted to be kicking of the Chinese new year with some excellent news about my book Lucy and the Rocket Dog, which has been shortlisted on the LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists. Now would be a good time to buy a copy for the small scientist …
I’m very pleased to see the cover of Stealing with the Eyes, my memoir of anthropology and Indonesia, due out from Haus Publishing in 2018. The cover image is a photograph I took of Saumlaki harbour in Tanimbar back in 1994. I dug it out of a shoebox and scanned the transparency. I’ll say more about the book closer to …
As promised, I’ve just posted the (lightly edited) text of what I was talking about last night at the Cambridge Union, over on my Wayward Philosophy blog. It is about killing, and Levinas, and uncertainty, and ambivalence. I was uncomfortably aware last night that ambivalence is not a strong position to take when engaging in debates of this kind; but …