David Palin

The pleasure of baking sourdough and and how it compares to the pleasure of writing.

Thoughts on Remembrance Sunday and a poem.

In memory of a friend.

As a writer I appreciate how much a good editor is able to improve my work.

On air on Marlow FM with Mary Flavelle and cartoonist Geoff Motley.

Setting your completed novel aside for a time, can bring a new perspective.

Find out more about my latest work The Wife Before Last.

Yes, for those who notice such things, I know the apostrophe would normally be after the ‘s’, though you could argue that most of us have...

The Poem of the Physicist As I stood upon the land So the sea destroyed the shore And a heart of stone was damned To be sand forever more...

…grieved for my father. Before anyone recoils in shock, I should point out that this only became apparent to me very recently during an...

As we’ve had such a stunning autumn, it reminded me of the scene from my bedroom window one frosty morning, which inspired me to write a...

I wrote in a short story that I wished my life could always be September, when the embers of a dying season wisp and glow. I think I had...

I went for a long walk across the local farmland this evening. The harvest has been collected and the fields are being prepared...

This is something I mentioned on Facebook the other day, but I thought it was worth blogging about too. There is so much bad press about...

So, the time is upon us again when we remember and honour the lives lost in war. In the midst of this, I believe there should be an...

I woke up some time between 5 – 6 a.m. today after sleeping really poorly. It struck me what a strange, rather emotional time of day that...

It has been surreal for me to watch the change in the London skyline of late. In my second novella – ‘In the Laptops of the Gods’ –...

…but unlike Parliament, does the nose have it too? Or the mouth, for that matter? Okay, what I’m really asking here is whether the...

Pre-COVID I ran a book club. Hopefully we will soon all meet again. We tried Zoom and soon realized it was a waste of time. Anyone who...

Well, why do we say hello? More than ever in these times of long, solitary walks, the greeting to a relative stranger is perhaps an...