Category Archives: Biographical

Concerning things that actually happened, give or take

This is what happens when you say ‘yes’

I knew this would hap­pen. Every day since 23 Octo­ber 2007 when he arrived at our house for the first time, I looked at Pye and gloomily thought: “But you’re going to die.” I had not pre­vi­ously been a cat per­son. Not at all. Pye’s pre­vi­ous owner, our friend Jean, asked Jols whether we would take him on. She …

January 24, 2012 – 5:20 pm | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Comments (0)

Going places

Some­times in life you do things that really make you feel like you’ve ‘arrived’. A new job with sig­nif­i­cantly bet­ter wages, for exam­ple. Or, as recently hap­pened to me, an actual invi­ta­tion to cen­tral Lon­don to actu­ally offi­cially do some actual proper work. Okay, so on this occa­sion I paid for the invi­ta­tion, rather than being paid …

September 30, 2011 – 8:51 am | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical, Novels, Writing | Comments (0)

Toil and trouble

In hon­our of Jols’s birth­day, I’d like to record for pos­ter­ity one of my favourite images of her. It was an image I never wit­nessed, yet for some rea­son I still feel it indeli­bly imprinted on my brain. Jols and I both went to the Uni­ver­sity of Wales, Aberys­t­wyth – indeed, we took a cou­ple of the same courses – …

June 30, 2011 – 9:36 am | By James Hannah | Posted in Biographical | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)