What America (and the rest) is really up to.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature
How our estrangement from Nature has led to collapse and extinction of entire ways of life.
The Dinosaur Hunters
The Victorian search for dinosaurs.
Wuthering Heights
Brontë classic, written just down the road from here.
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram
Iain (M) Banks gets paid to travel round Scotland drinking malt whisky.
The Peregrine, the Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J.A. Baker
Beatifully observed, poetic nature writing.
Charles Darwin: The Story of the Amateur Naturalist Who Created a Scientific Revolution and Changed the World
A short, very readable biography of Charles Darwin.
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist
A writer and poet's obsession with music.
Last Chance to See…
The late Douglas Adams travels the world visiting endangered species.