A celebration of birdsong during a pandemic.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas classic, wonderfully illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Book review: ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez
Memoir, place and empathy.
Punning the depths
Jen accidentally dropped a prune down our kitchen plughole yesterday… I asked whether we needed to call a plummer.
Book review: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris
Place writing at its finest, and most personal.
Book review: ‘Pedro and Ricky Come Again’ by Jonathan Meades
Selected Writing 1988-2020.
Book review: ‘Speak, Silence’ by Carole Angier
In search of W.G. Sebald.
Book review: ‘The Bookseller’s Tale’ by Martin Latham
A book for bibliophiles.
Enid Blyton goes dark
Yahoo! news: Five injured in early morning house explosion in Cambridge
Is there no end to this Brexit hell?
BBC: Kylie Minogue confirms she is moving back to Australia