The Pencil Forgives: a pale sage cloth-bound hardback on linen

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Essays

The Pencil Forgives

Twenty essays on writing slowly, by hand and on foot.

Twenty essays, collected from six years of the Longhand newsletter and rewritten for the page. On notebooks, pencils, editing, walking, letters and small towns.

Published

2024

Publisher

Calder Press

Quiet, exact and very funny about stationery.

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As read in

  • The Guardian Country Diary

  • BBC Radio 4

  • Slightly Foxed

  • The Northern Review

  • Granta

  • Caught by the River

  • Countryfile

  • The Bookseller

  • The Guardian Country Diary

  • BBC Radio 4

  • Slightly Foxed

  • The Northern Review

  • Granta

  • Caught by the River

  • Countryfile

  • The Bookseller

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