Back to reality

I'm now back from a quite fantastic honeymoon in Bali and Singapore, fit for new challenges (quite apart from those of married life, of course). First up, I begin an MA in Economics and Finance at Sheffield University on a part-time basis. I'm also taking responsibility as editor of Growing Business Yorkshire, a new expanded regional supplement of the best-selling magazine (actually, not quite yet - the Yorkshire launch has been put on indefinite hold). There'll also be the usual variety of new commissions for other titles.

Recently published work includes a feature on the private equity buyout market in the UK Midlands, 'Glum in Brum', for the very nicely re-designed Real Deals (8 September issue); a piece on the Regional Venture Capital Funds for the ICAEW's Corporate Financier; a review of that Freakonomics book for Fortean Times; and a selection of photographs - mostly of architecture, either futuristic and delapidated, in Yorkshire, London and Moscow - in JG Ballard: Conversations, a long-awaited collection of interviews with the great writer from Re/Search Publications.