Caroline Crampton

Caroline Crampton

Caroline Crampton is the author of books including The Way to the Sea and A Body Made of Glass and the creator of the Shedunnit podcast.
14
Sep

what I know about getting books published

This is a post from my newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox here. I got to feel
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31
Aug

this is me trying

There is a story about Oscar Wilde that I was told in my first week as an undergraduate that I
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28
Dec

a list of small, inconsequential pleasures

For no particular reason, yesterday I was thinking about the really quite terrible 2007 film Evan Almighty. You don’t
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28
Dec

a brain fizzing combination of accomplishment and virtue

In the twelve days between 26 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, I went to the tip four times. The
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28
Dec

the process of reading as unconscious as breathing

I have really struggled with reading in the last six months. This week, I finally tidied up the windowsill next
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28
Dec

to go any distance across rough terrain

I want to talk about these boots. These are the Scarpa Women’s Terra GTX hiking boots. They are what
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28
Dec

working from home is great until it isn’t

When I first moved out of London — and don’t worry, this isn’t one of those “why I left
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28
Dec

the five podcasts I actually listen to

If you had told me back in 2007, when approximately 30 per cent of all my waking hours were spent
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28
Dec

rummaging through all the paper

I feel like I have been taking notes on what I read since I was about 14, and that for
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28
Dec

when will we cry in public again?

I haven’t been on a train since early March, so naturally I’ve been daydreaming about public transport a
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