Interview with Faisal Oddang for the British Council
Whilst in Indonesia, the British Council asked me to do an online interview with the remarkably energetic and prolific Faisal Oddang — one of Indonesia’s most exciting young writers. The interview can…
Interview in Manusia Magazine
One of the biggest delights of being in Bali at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2018 was talking to Rudolf Gilmore Perez from Manusia Magazine. It was an…
“Hello, Stranger” to be published by Granta
I’m very pleased to announce that Granta have acquired my forthcoming non-fiction book, Hello, Stranger, an exploration of how welcoming strangers into our lives and worlds may make the world…
Ethical Leadership and Deforestation-as-metaphor
Over the next few months, I’m going to be working on co-developing and writing a textbook on ethical leadership for Mote Oo Education. I’ll be be working with my Wind&Bones…
Ethics and Writing
We spent our final afternoon at the book festival in Ubud yesterday with a diverse group of writers talking about questions of ethics. I’ve been interested in the relationship between…
Everywhere is Exotic, Everywhere is Mundane
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about travel-writing and anthropology, and about the obsession with exoticism that runs through both, in different but equally uneasy ways. Travel-writing often seeks to…
A Strange Collaboration
When the parcel eventually arrived containing my author copies of Snapshots of Museum Experience — the book on which I collaborated with my former partner, the late Elee Kirk — it…
The Duracell Bunny and the Deputy Political Commissar
An encounter in Wuxi with diviners, wizards, priests, the Duracell bunny, and the Deputy Political Commisar… with some thoughts on learning Chinese.
Painting Her to My Own Mind
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…
Lucy and the Rocket Dog on LITA Notable Books List
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…
