Breakfast and the sight of Hugh in his running shorts cheer up Deputy Head Porter considerably. But the death of Lord Bernard plays on her mind...

Deputy Head Porter rues her evening of excess.

Deputy Head Porter spends an evening drinking with The Dean and lets slip more than is wise.

A secret passageway leads to a hidden door in The Master’s study… and he is about to receive a very important phone call...

Head Porter searches one of the oldest and less-used areas of College for the Lord Layton painting, taking his trusty Deputy with him.

Head Porter has a plan, The Master visits the Porters’ Lodge and the The Dean is in the mood for drinking (again).

Who is the mysterious, sinister-sounding fellow lurking outside The Dean’s rooms? And why is Hugh hanging about there too?

Has someone made The Dean an offer he can’t refuse?

The Failing Writers Podcast is a writing podcast for everyone who has ever wanted to write a book... then put the kettle on instead.

Hugh from the Unlikely Law Association makes himself at home at Old College - but does he know more than he is letting on?

Just when things were going quite well, a pigeon puts Deputy Head Porter in a tricky position.

Deputy Head Porter deploys her plan to put the rest of College off the scent that the Lord Layton painting is missing.

Lunch is ruined by the disappearance of a valuable masterpiece. Better hope The Dean doesn’t find out...

As Deputy Head Porter begrudgingly tolerates the British weather and the general public, we learn a bit more about Head Porter and why he is such a grumpy bugger. But - Porter is very excitable about ...

Welcome to Season Two of The PorterGirl Podcast where we return to Old College to see what our favourite Porters are up to over the Summer Vac.

Happy Bloomsday everyone – it’s Ulysses. But for normal people.

Some of the Internet’s favourite reading debates . . . Audiobooks don’t count as reading Firstly, what do you mean, ‘count’? Count towards...

Now available on Kindle and coming soon on paperback! Not the political thriller we wanted, but the political thriller we deserve AMAZON UK AMAZON US In a post-Brexit, pre-dystopian Britain, the tr…

Stramash-up of the opening of Trainspotting and Ulysses. Read by Tam Dean Burn and Patrick Gibson. Backing: Lust For Life by Iggy Pop. Inspired by this post:

About The Book Head Porter’s hopes for a quiet life are dashed not only by the return to Old College of one of academia’s most controversial Fellows, but also the revelation that the Knights Templa…

Grief is a strange and unreliable companion. We all must meet him sometime, we hope we won’t get to know him too well. But even if we see him many times, we perhaps never know him entirely. He show…

Lucy Brazier reads a festive excerpt from PorterGirl – First Lady Of The Keys The PorterGirl Collection AMAZON UK AMAZON US

A festive short story written by Lucy Brazier and performed by the brilliant Paul Butterworth.

Lucy Brazier reads her PorterGirl novels, chats to guests and reveals secrets and thoughts about how the books came about and the real-life people and events that inspired them.

From the twee naivety of The First Day, when Deputy Head Porter takes her first nervous steps into Old College, to the perilous brutality of final chapter End Game – we have re-read every word of F…

From the twee naivety of The First Day, when Deputy Head Porter takes her first nervous steps into Old College, to the perilous brutality of final chapter End Game – we have re-read every word of First Lady of the Keys together on The PorterGirl Podcast. If this is your first trip to Old College then welcome – it’s quite an education.