At St Deiniols Library

I’m at St Deiniols Library writing this. For years I have dreamed of a secluded place to hide away and write. A few years ago I spent a weekend at the Manjushri Buddhist Centre in Cumbria – but that is a significant distance from where I live. St Deiniols is the only Residential Library I know of.  It is located in the small village of Hawarden in Wales. It has a book collection of over 250,000 items which is incredible.

It’s one of those things that you want to tell people about because it is amazing, but not tell too many people because you don’t want its seclusion to be spoilt. The library is located in an old sandstone house which belonged to Gladstone. He began the library and it still runs along the principles that were originally set by him.

I’m going to use this place to push forward the various manuscripts I am currently working on. It will be a great place to escape for realistic chunks of time and create.

The books I am currently working on are:

• Archetypes at Work  – which sets out practical applications of archetype theory in organisations (much more accessible than I am making it sound)
• Coming through Change – a guidebook for personal survival in times of change
• Scrapes against the Soul – the latest poetry collection

You can see excerpts from each of these manuscripts by clicking on links on the right. More extracts will appear over the coming weeks and months.