Journalist and author Peter Watts, proprietor of The Great Wen blog, gives us a run down of some of the latest book releases exploring our capital city I don’t think anybody, with the possible exception of Will Self, really knows what psychogeography means but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot ... Read More...

We enjoy a strange book, an imaginative, weird and uncategorisable exploration of the East London marshes... “What is this book?” you might ask on finishing it. Entertaining, enlightening and a fluent read, certainly. But as a whole it doesn’t fit any genre: ghost stories are mingled with memoir, local history with ... Read More...

Regular readers of The Dabbler will remember Gareth Rees of The Marshman Chronicles. Today Gareth returns as "Newly published author, Gareth E. Rees" to reveal how he put an end to 20 years of writing awful, half-arsed, unfinished novels. I’ve just turned 40. My first book, Marshland, comes out at the ... Read More...

The Marshman Chronicles’ Gareth Rees interviews Charlie Tuesday Gates about buried hamsters, boiled crabs and veganism. What The Dabbler needs, I announced to myself one day, is a rough guide to turning dead animals into art. And with that I jumped on a bus from Clapton to Stamford Hill to talk to artist ... Read More...

Gareth Rees lives in Clapton with his wife and two daughters. He spends every day wandering Hackney, Leyton and Walthamstow marshes with his dog Hendrix, avoiding his family and the pressures of life. He records his observations on his blog  The Marshman Chronicles. In a Hallowe'en special, Gareth takes us on ... Read More...