Author: How To Behave
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. Alexis de Tocqueville
Tales from the Souq – Yusef the Thief and Mubarak the Cook
The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 5 (Balquis)
The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 4 (The Well)
The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 3 (The Shapeshifter)
The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 2 (The Pearl Cloth)
Darling! the book ‘How to Behave’ is now on sale! Paperback/ Kindle/ Nook!
Small Acts of Kindness (Especially Necessary in Hard Times)
‘A Good Year’ and other Good Movies when You are Stuck at Home
How To Decorate (as we are all stuck at home anyways we might as well beautify)
Reverse Psychology 3: Loving Quarantine Because You are Safe from the Tall, Happy, Fussy People of Sweden
Reverse Psychology 2: Enjoy your Quarantine Because You Really Do NOT Want to Travel (to Maine and get eaten by bobcats after having cold oatmeal for breakfast)
Reverse Psychology: Enjoy your Quarantine Because You Don’t Really Want to Travel
How to Watch Snake Movies: The Life and Times of a True Pessimist
Fairy Tales for Quarantine – The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 1
Surviving Quarantine – The Lessons of Negative Daydreams and Pretending Not to do Chores
How to Survive Quarantine by Thinking about Places That are Worse than Your Small Apartment; aka: Let’s Talk about Vermont
How to Behave Well in a Quarantine
How to Quarantine in a Small Apartment
Happy Reading for the Unhappy Time of Virus
Behaving well in the time of the virus
This plant needs full sun, complete shade, daily watering, desert conditions, rocky soil, clay soil, well-fertilized soil and no soil at all: Buying Plants in the Middle East
This is an Ex-Flower: Buying Posies in the Middle East
The Fine Art of Learning the Fine Art of Self-protection
How to Receive Gifts (special Valentine’s Day dispatch)
How (not) to be a Manager
How to Give
How to Write
Expat Acquaintances – The Wind People and the Turtle People (All Mouth, No Ears)
How to Get Revenge
Modern Mrs Darcy
Living Well at Home and Abroad
The Sartorialist
Living Well at Home and Abroad
