The landscape’s invitation
Bannockburn House garden, Wednesday, 7 October 2026. Photographs by Peter Scott-Gordon. Words by John Berger and Andrew O’Hagan
Tag: Andrew O’Hagan
‘in the New Criterion’
Criterion: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Filmed, April 2025, at the CRITERION VAULTS, Gallowgate, Rothesay, Bute. Song: Piledriver Waltz by Alex Turner … Continue reading ‘in the New Criterion’
about friendship
Round Church, Bowmore, Islay, Thursday 29 August 2024: My question to Andrew O’Hagan: To play this short film please click here or on the image above.
a friend to friendship itself
Last week on a short island break we were fortunate to able to get last minute tickets for the Islay Book Festival. Andrew O’Hagan, author of Mayflies was being interviewed … Continue reading a friend to friendship itself
To call a spade a spade
In primary school I was considered to be a backward scholar who exhibited ‘no pace’ to learning. In particular I struggled with language and routinely talked about myself in the … Continue reading To call a spade a spade
‘There’s this shadow beside him in the painting’
Apart from the closinq quote – which is from Peter Pan – the passages below are all from MAYFLIES by Andrew O’Hagan:
EPHEMERON [Fig. I]
Do you share what matters to you most with your closest friend? If your best friend was represented as Figure I., and in a Text book, what words would you … Continue reading EPHEMERON [Fig. I]