Rose George
I have become a shipping expert again, after several years where I would turn down any requests for comment because I didn't feel I was keeping up with things. Now I am keeping up with things, because these are interesting times. So here are a few pieces I've written over the last couple of weeks. Apologies that there are paywalls involved. If I could remember how to link to a pdf, I'd do that,…
I've started a newsletter on Substack. It's called Rose: some rambling. I will write about something and nothing, anything and...
I wrote about my experience of taking a Personal Sea Survival course at Seascope Maritime in Liverpool, the latest in my articles for...
Last month I spent a week in Newlyn, Cornwall, and I went fishing with "Cod" Astley. He is, according to my sources, an extraordinarily...
I reviewed Simon Garfield's new book on encyclopaedias, "All the Knowledge in the World," for the Spectator. Summary: it's good.
I wrote about my grim four months with Long Covid, and why being fit and healthy was not a perfect shield. On the Guardian. Update: I am...
Charles Baudelaire was born 200 years ago today. I liked Charles Baudelaire when I read him, even though I read him in French and...
It was a great honour to be asked to give one of this year's Darwin Lectures. The lectures are run every year by Darwin College,...
I did an interview with Like the Wind magazine, for its online newsletter. About running, and me, and mud. Image by Neil Wallace
I have been mostly epically unproductive in this epidemic. But at least I have written a book proposal: more on that soon. And I have...
I am still getting emails from women in a state of confusion and fear about how they are feeling in menopause or peri-menopause. I am...
Yes, I'm like a London bus: I write nothing for ages and then two essays in two weeks. Here is one I have written for the New York Review...
I wrote this essay for Technology Review on how being at sea taught me about being marooned at home during this pandemic. I hope you are...
An update on me and menopause depression.
I write about Strava, the fitness app that is agnostic but inspires religious fervour in its users.
I have had to change my HRT, against my will. For months now, it has been difficult and sometimes impossible for women to find their...
There has been a furore this week about toilets. I like furores about toilets as I like anything that makes people think about toilets...
I know: you think that Granta's edition of Nine Pints was already a paperback. True. But it is known as a trade paperback, and now here...
The rhythm of publishing a book generally goes like this: if you are lucky, there is a flurry of attention around publication. This goes...
I have written something for the New York Times health pages on race and blood. An extract: “We need black blood.” I didn’t know what to...