Grave Goods – Matthew Holness.
Tools of the Trade I imagine people won’t be writing much in the afterlife, assuming it’s either as good or bad as people say. So instead I’ll plump for decent walking shoes. If the...
Monthly Archive: February 2026
Grave Goods – Steven Delaney/Count Arthur Strong.
Tools of the Trade – a tool/implement without which you’d be lost, whether it’s a pen, trowel, notepad, bottle-opener or scanning electron microscope. Up until a couple of months ago I would have said my...
Grave Goods – Max Porter.
Tools of the Trade – a tool/implement without which you’d be lost, whether it’s a pen, trowel, notepad, bottle-opener or scanning electron microscope. Pencil and paper, please. And a little knife to sharpen my pencil....
Grave Goods – Cal Flynn.
Grave Goods Cal Flynn Tools of the Trade – a tool/implement without which you’d be lost, whether it’s a pen, trowel, notepad, bottle-opener or scanning electron microscope. I’ve always been a bit sniffy about people...
Grave Goods – Jennifer Lucy Allan.
Grave Goods: Jennifer Lucy Allan Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer, journalist and broadcaster with a PhD in foghorns. Her first book, The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of The Coast is out now on White Rabbit Books....
Grave Goods – Mary-Ann Ochota.
What five items would you take to the grave? We ask anthropologist, writer and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota. She’s the author of Britain’s Secret Treasures and Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, which was shortlisted for Current...
Grave Goods – David Southwell.
Tools of the Trade – a tool/implement without which you’d be lost, whether it’s a pen, trowel, notepad, bottle-opener or scanning electron microscope. I expect my personal afterlife will be a somewhat sodden, grey-bruised...
Grave Goods – Tim Dee.
The Crossing It looks bad from where I am. I’m on some sort of river-side and waiting for a ferry. There are no birds, which is strange. The river must be wide; I can’t...
Grave Goods – Hookland.
Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of interviews in which the interviewee selects five items they’d like to accompany them to the afterlife. This inaugural interview is, uniquely I think, with a fictional county. Hookland,...
Grave Goods – Jeff Noon.
For this Grave Goods selection, we’re delighted to welcome Jeff Noon. Jeff was born in Manchester in 1957, trained in the visual arts and drama, and was active on the post-punk music scene before...