I was born in Oxford in 1973 and lived there for ten years. The memories of this time are fractured. I remember a party in the street for the Queen’s Jubilee: my father, Rick, dressed up as a ringmaster, my sister Emma on her horse, carnival lions in a home-made parade. I was always in the garden….
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Nell Stroud
Nell Stroud has been a ringmaster in Santus Circus which tours the south of England. She is the co-founder of Gifford’s circus.
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