You don’t have to live in Bloomsbury to find inspiration to write about London (although it certainly helped). My first novel, Unlawful Things, unwinds along the pilgrim road from London to Canterbury. It was largely written in a big, cold room in a Victorian flat in Leigh Street, WC1. I’m still editing it, but in the mean time, here’s some I prepared earlier.
Published
Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life, the diary of a contemporary Dulwich lady, was inspired by the Gainsborough portrait, Mrs Moody and her Children, which hangs in Dulwich Picture Gallery. It ran for six months on the Dulwich OnView website.
Stag, a short story inspired by Greenwich Park, was published in the ‘Penny Dreadful’ magazine One Eye Grey, as part of the Second Arsenal Stadium Mystery edition.
Unpublished short stories from my Birkbeck writing class.
A Cabinet of Curiosities. Who is the mysterious narrator, who collects the confessions and secrets of others? Can you trust him? Do you, perhaps, have something to tell him yourself?
Calling Mr Wright. Well, who would you call, on Valentine’s Day?
On Blackfriar’s Bridge. It’s a long way down, into that black, swirling water.
Rattus Rattus. They’re still there, you know. Never more than a few feet away.
Looking for Mum. But what’s Mum looking for?
Bugged fiction/poetry (from the 2011 Bugged project)
