[remember, if you take this idea and make lots of money from it then you agree to send me 1%…

I’ve never liked festivals much. They’re crowded, the food is expensive and bad, they’re muddy, and if you lose your…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

One of the questions I’m asked most commonly after a performance is’ how did you become a storyteller?‘ I think I’ve…

High above a village on the Greek island of Kalos, there lived an old painter in a small stone house…

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

‘The sea about Athos is very full of monsters who seized and devoured the drowning Persians.” So observed Herodotus in…

When Elsa Schenkel came of age there were no shortage of suitors. Her family was wealthy and respected and could…

The day that Simon Simonov won the presidential election was the happiest moment of his life. ‘For my part I…

This is for me the best of the stories we’ve published so far on the web comic, Wandering Viola –…

In the sea of words that is the internet, a writer can feel quite lost. I found myself turning out…

  High above a village on the Greek island of Kalos, there lived an old painter in a small stone…

Here are some of my latest stories to listen to as you’re falling asleep, on a bus or just in…

The sounds of the men drinking and laughing in the garden of the tavern echoed off the surrounding mountains and…

Para mi Alma. When I was 5 I saw Father Christmas. I know what you’re already thinking: I saw my…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6UB8aL4V8 I made a couple of mistakes here – for instance it should have been Birbal, not Bilal, in the…

So way back in the 1930’s when Alekhine was the world chess champion, having recently defeated the great Capablance for…

This is the audio book of my novel Bozo and the Storyteller read by the talented Emily Bennett. There are…

What does it take for us to risk our lives in defence of what we value? We’ve seen protesters in…

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

Once upon a time you had only to imagine a place to be sure that somewhere, somehow, it actually existed. One such place was the Wishing Well.

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

Of all the stories of broken-hearted lovers, none was ever quite so tragic as the man who fell in love…

As an angry young man I traveled to the hills of Pakistan and, to my surprise, found a way to help change the world.

“You’re nothing but a hound dog!” is what you’re telling someone when you accuse them of being a cynic. Coming…

Norton is one of my greatest heroes, a man who made his dream come true for him and everyone else just by believing in it…