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…

The novelist, Jonathan Franzen, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College this year and it was such powerful stuff that…

I think I owe a good deal of my nomadic existence to a kid’s television program from the 80’s called…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlrW_r3k1Q You’re the flame in the fire, dancing free, Ignite my desire, how I long to be Your lover, but…