Jennifer Lucy Allan

• The Caught by the River Book of the Month: February

  Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment — about ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and fortress islands — is...

  2nd February 2021

• Shadows and Reflections: Jennifer Lucy Allan

  It’s time for the annual musings known as Shadows and Reflections. Since so many of our lives were lived in...

  5th January 2021

• A Shetland Lighthouse Diary, Part Four

  In her fourth and final column from Shetland, Jennifer Lucy Allan learns to identify the island's birdlife I know nothing...

  7th April 2018

• A Shetland Lighthouse Diary, Part Three

  In her latest column from Shetland, Jennifer Lucy Allan battles gale-force winds in pursuit of stew ingredients On Valentine’s Day...

  23rd March 2018

• A Shetland Lighthouse Diary, Part Two

  In her latest column from Shetland, Jennifer Lucy Allan familiarises herself with Sumburgh Lighthouse's foghorn On the Monday of my...

  7th March 2018

• A Shetland Lighthouse Diary

  The first of four dispatches from Jennifer Lucy Allan's temporary lighthouse home. Sheets of rain come down with no warning, clattering against...

  17th February 2018

• In Praise of Fog

  Words and pictures: Jennifer Lucy Allan Last week I cycled along the coast from Southend to Leigh-On-Sea through a dense...

  9th January 2017

• Sands, sounds and bearings: Maps with no land

  Sands, sounds and bearings: Maps with no land Maps are not ways of escaping. Things were always going to turn...

  29th November 2016

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