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A Barn Abroad: Early Memories Of Norway
A handful of souvenirs preserved in the family home prompts MICK DAVIES to reconstruct some potent impressions from nearly sixty years ago.
Mick Davies
14th August 2024
“In search of a story, I found myself.”
Blog Archive
News & Book Excerpts
Extract: Letting Go The Leash
Extract from the Oil On Water Press book, Letting Go The Leash, by Stephen Ellis Hamilton.
Stephen Ellis Hamilton
12th August 2024
News & Book Excerpts
Tread softly on dreams: A 500-mile hike
From personal and physical trauma to the remains of Saint James the Great, the inspiration behind Duncan McNamara’s pilgrimage, Walk This Way.
Duncan McNamara
19th July 2023
News & Book Excerpts
Muscles and mountains. Finding Paula Engborg And A Way Up
Physical training in the world of dangerous sports. Taking a leaf from Paula Engborg’s book, A Way Up.
Lance Manor
19th June 2023
News & Book Excerpts
Letting Go the Leash Photo Gallery
“Of the many stories that will be born out of the challenges faced in the global pandemic, this one is ours, mine and Zeke’s — the rescue dog.”
Stephen Ellis Hamilton
18th August 2022
News & Book Excerpts
The story behind this Brooklyn memoir
From the Holocaust to UFOs and the Beatles, a confusing past inspired Robert Rosen to write A Brooklyn Memoir. Here he explains why.
Robert Rosen
13th July 2022
Interviews
How not to pronounce Fugazi: In the studio with Melissa Meszaros
It seems logical for an author to read their own work as an audiobook, but it’s far from common. Melissa Meszaros is one exception.
David Kerekes
13th March 2022
Travel
Skatepark Gallery
In the summer of 2018, Clint Carrick drove across the US visiting unremarkable skateparks in unremarkable small towns. Along the way he took photographs.
Headpress
18th January 2022
News & Book Excerpts
Possessed to Skate
Clint Carrick grew up in a small town where the skatepark was king to kids just like himself. He was out of practice when, as an adult, he one day packed his bags to travel the small town skateparks across the American Heartland to learn to do it all again.
Clint Carrick
2nd February 2021
News & Book Excerpts
The Town Slowly Empties – Audiobook teaser
An audio sample of the book, The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown. On why we write, the writings of world authors and poets on the subject of pandemic, and the things that confront us in such times.
Headpress Admin
14th January 2021
