Disposable Diaries: Leo Benedictus

Our latest ‘Disposable Diaries’ comes from Leo Benedictus, the author of two novels: The Afterparty and the newly published stalker thriller, Consent. We gave the author a disposable camera to take away, and the photos he took show some of the things he gets up to when he’s not writing, including a delightful allotment project of his.

A size-4 football, between kicks.

My feet on the sidelines

A slowworm, technically a legless lizard and not a snake, accidentally disturbed from hibernation by my spade.

Me and one of my sons, in their den. The pickaxe is mine. The greenhouse isn’t.

Cocoa, aggregates.

Artichokes just grow mindlessly all year.

I liked oriented strand board before it was cool.

History.

My pickaxe again. Consent’s digging scene is one of very few I was able to write from experience.

The spade my wife gave me for Christmas.

Signs without a signpost and a signpost without a sign.

A van that people live in.