Book Trailer for ‘Helen and the Grandbees’
See the trailer for the exciting new novel ‘Helen and The Grandbees’
New website!
This is just to announce that the new website alexmorrall.com is now live and holds everything.. my art, my novels, my food blogging... Have an explore!
A Sense of Un-Entitlement
The old and the new in South East London My south east London ranges from sticky and urine-soaked, to smart and classy within a few steps. I can walk in the woods, stroll along an...
A Review of Luciano’s Lee SE12
The biggest concern in Luciano’s, as we sat on the Burnt Ash Road, warding off insistent sunshine, and occasionally seat swapping to escape it, was whether we should order mussels in arrabbiata...
Park Cafe Honle (that’s ‘Honle’ with an umlaut)
I’ve been cycling past Park Cafe Honle (that’s ‘Honle’ with an umlaut) in Deptford’s Folkestone gardens for years, just not knowing. It was a day off for a chill that let me discover what a delight...
A Review of ‘El Marsem’, Delights of the Old Kent Road
I discovered Algerian Cafe “El Marsem” on the Old Kent Road when we were stopped by the traffic lights in front a window of piles and piles of pancakey bread, or was it bready pancakes, or was it...
Places in Greenwich that you shouldn’t miss
I’m sure by now you’ve spotted that Blackheath.London is not an advertising channel where restaurants and products are soaked in a reverential halo… however I know that if you’re local readers you’d...
Free Reading #helenandthegrandbees
I’ve had a lot of questions about a sequel to HELEN AND THE GRANDBEEs, so I thought I would release this short story ‘Helen Ruth and One Bee’ from Helen’s life after her fall out with Lily. ...
Helen, Ruth and One Bee
I’ve had a lot of questions about a sequel to HELEN AND THE GRANDBEEs, so I thought I would release this short story ‘Helen Ruth and One Bee’ from Helen’s life after her fall out with Lily. You can...
Heat Lamps and Mezze, outdoor dining at the Guildford Arms SE10
It was the first week of open beer gardens. Every news report said a booking at a beer garden was rarer than a cheerful news story. I was failing in my duty as a local food blogger not to have...
My Paintings
Canary Wharf Clouds
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts
My stories taught me about myself
(This article originally appeared in the Pebworth Piper) My need to leave London had been on my mind for a while. I was fatigued by London’s luxury towers and treeless plazas. It’s uptight tentacles tangled along every street and into my little Victorian cottage...
ADRIFT – The Storyteller & The Mosaicist OUT NOW!
From the writer of the ‘Engaging and Uplifting’ (Daily Mail) HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES, artist Alex Morrall explores themes of love and isolation in her novella, Adrift.
A sneak extract from ADRIFT – The Storyteller & Mosaicist
They say, when you come back, that things might not be normal, straightaway.” He pulled a palm across his face as if it would bring him into normality.
ADRIFT – The Storyteller and the Mosaicist SNEAK PREVIEW
On a good day in Robin’s life, on an ideal day which is creatively profitable, when the world buzzes with the fact that you are a maker and not a subordinate, when you fizz with tangibility, and the pavement glows where the air hits it….
Announcing “Adrift – The Storyteller & The Mosaicist”
And now for the exciting update I’ve been promising to reveal since the end of last year… My novella Adrift is coming out on 8th March! “The neatness after the tragedy. The emptied room and crisp cleaned sheets.” Bernie is plunged into turmoil when her step-brother is...
How did I end up in Adis Ababa?
When the PA at the consultancy firm I worked at in the early 2000’s introduced me to one of the directors, with the words, “He wants to send you around the world,” I was a little taken aback to discover they meant Ethiopia.