Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
Quarantine in the Falkland Islands
From South Asia to the South Atlantic, in the time of Covid
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
None should sleep
A TOSCCA conversation on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
The Gentleman’s Marathon
ASH Smyth recounts his one experience of ‘running’ 26.2 miles
In-line, online, and where to draw the line
Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19
Hat trick ball
Help me trace Gunner Costello, the fast bowler who may have survived a Court-Martial
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize