Fiction and essays
Novels, essays, and a newsletter about paying attention
Three books so far. A fourth, slowly.
About
About Brightwell
Three novels about places people stay in, and two hundred essays about looking at one thing closely. Written in longhand, mostly before eight in the morning.
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Books
Published work, with publisher, year and where to find it.
- 01The Long ShoreIndependent literary publisher2024 · Novel
- 02The ValleyIndependent literary publisher2020 · Novel
- 03Ordinary StreetIndependent literary publisher2017 · Novel
- 04Small AttentionIndependent literary publisher2022 · Essay collection
- 05What the Tide LeavesEleven thousand words on a single stretch of beach, over a year.2019 · Long-form essay, anthologised
- 06In the Fourth YearThe fourth book. Slowly, and about half done.2025 · Novel, in progress
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The essays are free and there are two hundred of them. If you would rather have the books, they are all in print and available from any bookshop that will order them.
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