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