ASSASSINATION VACATION / OH COMELY 10/08/201725/09/2017Jason Ward Knowledge in everyday life so often arrives wearing the garments of the pub bore, the explainer who behaves as if they somehow own
THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE / OH COMELY 13/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward One of the hardest parts of growing up takes place years after the actual growing up. It comes when you revisit a person
FREEDOM / OH COMELY 06/04/201701/02/2017Jason Ward Some negative qualities are sexier than others. Literature groans under the weight of moody, narcissistic and casually cruel characters that readers can’t help
A CHRISTMAS CAROL / OH COMELY 08/12/201601/02/2017Jason Ward It’s surely not a coincidence that our most ebullient rituals occur during the bleakest days of the year. As winter batters its fists
THE PLAYER OF GAMES / OH COMELY 13/10/201619/09/2019Jason Ward A throwaway joke in the 2009 film Star Trek may be one of the most sublime questions ever posed in science fiction. Exiled
LETTERS TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE / OH COMELY 11/08/201629/09/2016Jason Ward Noah Ward owns a suspicious number of books for someone who can’t read. In his defence, he is seven months old and only
THE LIVING MOUNTAIN / OH COMELY 09/06/201629/09/2016Jason Ward I knew she was dead. It’s the first line of the book. The ninth, tenth and eleventh words. I’ve seen the stone slab
REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD / OH COMELY 01/10/201519/09/2019Jason Ward It’s 10.30 pm on 11th February 1963 and John Lennon is stripped naked to the waist. After ten frenzied hours recording their debut album, The
RSPB POCKET GUIDE TO BRITISH BIRDS / OH COMELY 12/02/201519/09/2019Jason Ward “There‘s a puffin in the back garden!” I announced to my housemates, my Pocket Guide to British Birds held triumphantly aloft. The puffin
