I was hired as a staff writer at the Guardian in 2013, and have been freelancing for them ever since. Here are a few of my favourite pieces:

• Guardian Opinion: Telling a young person to 'Just get a job' is like going to the Sahara and yelling 'Just rain!' (later included in The Bedside Guardian, a hardback anthology of the best journalism of the year)

• Guardian Weekend: Snooping in a Dead Man’s House (later became the opening chapter of my book, This Party’s Dead, to be published in 2020)

• Guardian Travel: learning to bake sourdough in Spain’s Sierra Nevada

• Guardian Travel: building (and sleeping in) an igloo in Switzerland

• Guardian Sport: an interview with the world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen

• Guardian Video: the secrets of the posh accent

• Guardian Weekend: That’s Me in the Picture – Markiyan Matsekh plays the piano for riot police in Kiev

• Guardian Do Something: Dog-sledding with huskies in Gloucestershire

• Guardian Do Something: Why tidying up could change your life

• Guardian: The Case for Language Learning - how to survive the worst moments of learning a language

• Guardian Working in Development: How can the UN fight inequality of it doesn’t pay its interns?

• Guardian Weekend: VE Day - WWII veterans tell their stories

• Guardian Masterclass: I teach features writing along with other leading Guardian writers