Greg Buzwell

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Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition. Loves literature, Doctor Who, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and anything spooky.

Four books - The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, The Living Stones by Ithel Colquhoun and Holy Orders by John Banville.
Red telephone box, repurposed to house a display on the history of Crowland.
Crowland Abbey ruins, out in the wilds of Lincolnshire.
Four books, Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Four books on a table. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, The Lost Folk by Lally Macbeth, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble.
Beanie, a black and white cat, asleep on a bed with a paw across her face.
Beanie, a black and white cat, rolling about on a garden patio.
Six books, including Christopher Priest’s A Dream of Wessex, Exterminate! Regenerate by John Higgs and Church Going by Andrew Ziminski.
Five books piled on a table: The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble, Medusa’s Ankles by AS Byatt, The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft, Super-Cannes by JG Ballard and The Public Image by Muriel Spark.
Four paperbacks bought in charity shops - The Making of Doctor Who, The Razor’s Edge, The Bachelors and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Black & white cat sleeping in an armchair.
Four books read in February, The House in the Borderland, Offshore, The Dream Archipelago and What we can Know.
The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson. Recent Penguin Weird Fiction edition.
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, by Frances Wilson.
Doctor Who, The Seeds of Doom, on the TV with a black and white cat helpfully sitting on the coffee table.
Two carved figures on the side of a font. Julian’s Church, Norwich.
Five books: Maigret’s Holiday, The Bell, Monsignor Quixote, Cat’s Cradle and According to Mark.
Bushes with orange and red berries amidst the green foliage.
Black and white cat, relaxing on a bed with all four paws in the air.
Selection of five books including Powsels and Thrums by Alan Garner.