Prose and Passion

If you've ever drunkenly looked at the label on a wine bottle and wondered why it doesn't list the ingredients, you'll find the ...

It amuses me that my ancestral Y chromosomes passed through two cities that are now twinned with Oxford. My granddad studied at Bonn and me...

My last feature of the year is a seasonal offering with the radical suggestion that we should celebrate old trees growing in their natural e...

Some thoughts on Violeta by Isabel Allende Plaza & Janes 2022 In recent years I haven't quite managed to keep up with Isabel Al...

I have covered Gütersloh as the home of one of my four railway families , but looking at it again for the lost cities series , I realised th...

After the reshuffled quartets list , here's a fresh version of the trios as well Trios without a viola part : Anonymus (Venice, aroun...

My list of the quartets in my growing chamber music collection is becoming unwieldy, and I also need to split it into those that have a vio...

I have written about the Krefeld clan on various occasions, but somehow didn't have a piece on Krefeld in the first series of #lostciti...

My latest feature in Current Biology is about a big beast of the Pleistocene that has been extinct for almost four centuries, but is also pr...

Lorsch is quite important in my family history but when I prepared the first set of lost cities entries, I struggled to find a suitable p...

Some thoughts on Yoko Ono: Music of the mind Kunstsammlung NRW: K20 Düsseldorf (until 16.3.2025) (in collaboration with the Tate Modern ...

Back in the first plague winter of 2020-21, I entertained myself with a blog series on the " lost cities " where my recent ancesto...