Articles

A criminal Bildungsroman: Jack Black’s 1926 memoir ‘You Can’t Win’. Published in Slightly Foxed.

Two short scripts about the writing process, commissioned by the Royal Literary Fund.

A journey to witness nature’s abundance in an age of extinction on the island of Skomer. Published in Perspective.

Where his family once farmed on a wild fringe of the Lycian shoreline, one man has built his dream retreat. Published in Guardian Travel.

Ecocide and the paranormal: the strange case of dinosaurs, UFOs and a vanished sea. Published in Perspective.

A photo essay about a dead sea and the world’s youngest desert. Published in Dark Mountain.

Resurrection and apocalypse in the desert left by the vanishing of Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea. Published in Noema.

Seeing the world through Neanderthal eyes in William Golding’s ‘The Inheritors’. Published in Slightly Foxed.

Tree planting in Senegal’s Sahel region marks the start of Africa’s Great Green Wall. For BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent.

The sociable solitude of Lundy, and the recovery of the island’s seabird population. Published in Guardian Travel.

A journey into deep time on the shifting sand dunes of Lithuania’s Curonian Spit. Published in Emergence.

On the shores of Dugi Otok, one of Croatia’s least visited islands. Published in Guardian Travel.

On the profound dislocation of flying home after a months-long walk. Published in Noema.

The 2012 Mayan calendar ‘prophecy’ and misunderstandings of appocalypse. Published in Perspective.

A funeral for a dead glacier in Switzerland; living rivers in England, New Zealand and Quebec. Published by Alexander.

An appreciation of London’s rose-ringed parakeets. Published in The Simple Things.

Autumn is not a time of death, just the birth of a different life. Adventures among fungus-foragers. Published in Perspective.

A non-travel piece about the intangible border of the Kogis’ sacred mountains in northern Colombia. Published in Aeon.