Tidetable is a publication about the things that keep time.

Ferry timetables, the bell a baker rings when the second batch is out, the tide table pinned inside a harbour office window, the last train that runs whether or not anyone is on it. I write about the schedules a town keeps without thinking, and about the people who keep them.

Now and then I also write about the small print of writing itself: the footnote, the pilcrow, the margin. These pages are set the way I like to read, with notes beside the text and the paragraphs numbered, so that a reader can point to the exact place where I went wrong.

A new essay appears on the first Sunday of each month and goes out the same morning as a letter. Shorter notes appear when they are ready.