Come to the edge

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

Eighteen months ago I chaired an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with a novelist I know well, someone whose work I admire and whom I like very much as a person. Halfway through the event, in front of … Continue reading →

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In praise of footering

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

We were sitting round the dinner table in our Airbnb lakeside cabin at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, last week – Sarah and I and our two grown-up children, Anna and Jake. Anna’s reaching the end of the first year of a … Continue reading →

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More from Anna …

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

More from daughter Anna’s summer Vancouver Island journal …

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September

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

September is a month of renewal. People are back from their summer holidays. A new academic year is starting. Autumn is in the air. And it’s the month of my birth. In September I always have a strong feeling of … Continue reading →

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From Anna Jauncey …

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey
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Close encounters

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

I spent last night with a friend in Edinburgh. This morning, boarding a bus into the west end, I spotted a vacant seat next to an attractive young black woman with a cloud of hair. As I sat down I … Continue reading →

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A hard rain

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

Although he was a prominent part of the soundtrack to my student days, I was never a huge Bob Dylan fan. I found the nasal voice, the rudimentary guitar-strumming and harmonica-playing, grating; and the apparent stream-of-consciousness of the lyrics confusing. … Continue reading →

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On purpose

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

Extraordinary as it seems today, my first job was as an articled clerk with a firm of London chartered accountants. I can distinctly hear my lawyer father and banker stepfather saying, almost as one, ‘My boy, with a law degree … Continue reading →

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Spanish Crossings

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

A couple of years ago, on our advanced course in Spain, my Dark Angels partner John Simmons woke up one morning with a line in his head. It stayed with him and today, in summer 2017, it’s the opening sentence … Continue reading →

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The stories we tell

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

In the past month I’ve spent a week in Spain with a group of eight people on a The Stories We Tell course, and a week in the Northwest Highlands with a friend I’ve known for 45 years. At the … Continue reading →

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