Ben Tufnell

@bentufnell.bsky.social

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Writer. Curator. Owl. Art stuff mostly over on Instagram. Stories in BBSS2024, Conjunctions, Interzone, Los Angeles Review etc. Novels: THE NORTH SHORE (Fleet, 2023), PARADISE (Influx Press, 2026). www.bentufnell.com www.knappedflint.com

A pic of Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Green Tea and Other Weird Tales’ feat. a v creepy photo of what might be a monkey….
Cover of Interzone #305 with list of contributors
A gorgeous and very scruffy Irish Terrier called Pio…..
Books by Ben Tufnell and Justin Hopper.
An add for an event with Ben Tufnell at The Bookshop in Helston on Thursday 21 May - including pics on Ben and his books Paradise and The North Shore
A flyer for an event with Ben Tufnell in King’s Lynn in 14 May 2026….
Chapbooks by Dan Coxon, Andrew Hook and AliyaWhitley, with very cool b&w photos of, respectively, a row of books (spines not showing), a vintage car and a pile of knobbly pinecones…,
The first page of a piece on Anthony Burgess by Martin Amis, with the information that when the ‘omnilingual’ Burgess met Borges, they ‘chatted in Anglo-Saxon’!
The cover of The Crossing by David Frankel - the silhouette of a figure against snow, with a dark forest and sky in the background.
The cover of ‘Paradise’ by Ben Tufnell, depicting a dense forest
Salvador Dali’s Portrait of Luis Bunuel
Copies of ‘The Best Weird Fiction of The Year Vol. 1’, ‘Broken Ground’ and ‘Chalklands’ by Richard Smyth
The cover of the autumn 2025 issue of The Brussels Review. Featured is a painting, ‘Ships 13’ by Pippa Derbyshire
An image of CLOSE gallery overwritten with info about ‘After Nature’, an exhibition curated by Ben Tufnell, with a list of the artists included…
A detail of a painting of sunflowers by Anselm Kiefer, featuring a dedication to William Blake
View of Mike Perry’s ‘Reverse Sod Swap’ in Springfield Park, Hackney.
A tiny horse with a floppy fringe
Portrait of a woman by Modigliani
A wooden mask depicting a walrus
Home page of The Los Angeles Review. Top left, ‘Sand’ by me, with a picture of a path to a beach….
A stamp in red ink that reads 'BEN TUFNELL ENGLAND best. 1969'
Graffiti says: Sir, your trousers are a bloody disgrace’. Lovely.
A sculpture of a gaping mouth, from which emerges a parade of literary figures led by Tolstoy…
The cover of ‘Stories of Place’, a short story anthology. The cover image is of a landscape seen from the air, obscured by washes of vibrant colour.
A b&w photo of Francis Bacon by Irving Penn. On the wall behind him is pinned a reproduction of a self-portrait by Rembrandt.
Detail of Van Gogh’s ‘Landscape with Ploughman’ (1889)
Detail of Van Gogh’s ‘Landscape at Saint Remy’ (1889)
A copy of The North Shore propped on a branch of a xmas tree amongst decorations….
3 books by Ben Tufnell. L-R: On Mirrors, The North Shore, Dissolution.
The end of a letter from Malcolm Lowry to Frank Taylor, describing the mishaps that led to him typing it.
The covers of 3 books by Ben Tufnell - On Mirrors, The North Shore and Dissolution.
Ben Tufnell’s The North Shore on a shelf in a bookstore…..
A drawing by David Nash, a circle of 12 circles, different shades of green for the 12 months of the year.
Three books, all by Ben Tufnell: 'Dissolution', 'The North Shore' and 'On Mirrors'.....
Cover in 'In Land' by Ben Tufnell, depicting the artist Julian Charriere attempting to melt an iceberg with a blowtorch....
BT with Richard Long (wearing a natty blue hat