These photographs were published in Town, which was named a Best Book of 2024 by The Spinoff. Town is a collection of 50 stories and 50 photographs.

This visit, Dad is finishing his lunch. He’s been eating it with a knife, which one of the carers tries to change to a fork, but it looks like it’s a ‘stubborn’ day.

England Jonjon Belmont had the hint of a moustache, the hint of a personality. He always lay close to  the edge of our bed, the copious Snake-Bites we consumed in the Eastbourne pub on the  summer solstice had created an unreality so real I could feel scales instead of skin. Drunk  and feeling touristy, we headed for the infamous suicide…

Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List    Diana Crawford is so familiar with the route to her childhood home that the car nearly drives itself. Turning left, she chats to her parents’ ghosts. “Mum, are you still giving him the silent treatment up there? I’ve emptied the kitchen. Why six teapots? Sorry, Dad. It’s the workshop today. Everything’s…

Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List   Mick drove, his right arm leaning out the window, tanned to the colour of teak below the rolled sleeve of his shirt. Paul lay across the back seat, floppy hair hiding his eyes. His T-shirt was dark and slick with sweat. I sat in the front passenger seat bent over an…

Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List   Nanny Teria was big once. There’s photos of her standing tall beside my mother and a lot wider. When I knew her, though, she was little – folded over her walking stick with thin birdy wrists and hands with bones sticking out. Her legs, you wondered how they could hold her…