Tag: bardo travel

  • Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    At first glance the paintings of Eric Ravilious are cheerful. Bright and airy landscapes, soft hills, the still life of an afternoon tea, chalk figures seen through the window of a railway carriage; all with a straight-edged exactness which brought order to the world he was depicting.

  • New Deaths

    New Deaths

    I did have some food in but had thought to get in more – in fact I’d decided to learn how to bake bread and had none of the ingredients. But I did not say this. I told him I had run out of cigarettes and peanuts. I said this to appease him; I imagined…

  • The Invigilators

    The Invigilators

    ‘There’s a lizard behind you,’ the boy said motioning with his head, but not allowing his eyes to leave those of Leopold.

  • The Race Delusion

    The Race Delusion

    I was part of a pack of five, hurtling past purple heather on the slick wet road, smoky cloud clinging to the hillsides, when the epiphany came.

  • A Royal Myth

    A Royal Myth

    Something strange drew me to the pavement of the city bypass one morning last September.