The Abbey of Misrule
My ongoing essay series about the signs of the times. Unfolding now on Substack.
Alexandria
Body vs Machine in an English fenland a thousand years from now. My latest novel, out now in paperback.
Interviews & Podcasts
Conversations with interesting people about nature, culture, politics, God and other big things.
Latest Writing:
A Wild Christianity
The earliest Christians retreated to the caves to seek God and remake the world - it might be time to emulate them.
Essay, 2023
The Cross and the Machine
An essay-length account of my journey from atheism to Orthodox Christianity, via Buddhism, witchcraft and other strange twists.
Essay, 2021
Lessons from the Garden
The Indian writer Narendra’s thirty years of writing from the Adivasi tribal areas tells us more than we might know about our world.
Essay/review, 2020
The Light in the Trees
A hermit in a cave, a girl who works in a jewellery shop: what does she keep seeing, and how does he know before she tells him?
Short story, 2020