These are some of the people, places and work that I love…

Macdonald Wright Architects
My true love.
www.macdonaldwright.com

Sue Parkhill
I love Sue Parkhill’s work. Her website deals mostly with her advertising work, which is also wonderful, but her independent work is stunning.
www.sueparkhill.com

Ursula le Guin
An obsession since I first read the Earthsea books.
www.ursulakleguin.com

Jen Sachs
A magnificent animator who combines a smart feminist sensibility with beautiful visuals
www.jensachs.com

Zoe Crosher
www.zoecrosher.com

Sandro del Rosario
www.sandrodelrosario.com

Mike Enright
When I saw Grit I couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks.
www.enrightmike.com

Senses of Cinema
www.sensesofcinema.com

Carol Shields
Once every few years I read all her novels. I can’t get over the quality of her writing. Everything I think in my muddleheaded way about what is important, what matters, about the supposed smallness of women’s lives, ordinary women, and the real hugeness of it, is perfectly put in everything Carol Shields writes.
www.carol-shields.com

Christopher Isherwood
Another obsession. When I read Down There on a Visit I had to keep looking away. I couldn’t quite believe how wonderful the writing was. But it is his diaries that really obsess me, and the interaction in his work between fiction and autobiography, and the move, through his life, from one to the other. That, and the prose.
www.isherwoodfoundation.org

The Providores and Tapa Room
My friends Michael and Peter have this restaurant. I love them and I love it.
www.theprovidores.co.uk

Moro
And I also love this place.
www.moro.co.uk

Barbara Marsh
Doesn’t have a website, but she does have an amazing collection of poetry out published by Eyewear- To The Boneyard– and everyone should buy it.