A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘Photography: a very short introduction’ by Steve Edwards
Thoughts on important photographic topics.
Book review: ‘See/Saw’ by Geoff Dyer
Looking at photographs.
Decrepitude
Holy crap… …I’ll leave it to you to do the maths. I’m off for a nap.
Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne
Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
Book review: ‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie
Poems in Scots.
Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes
A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.
Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 5’
A final volume of diaries, covering a momentous time in British and European history.
Book review: ‘Rare Singles’ by Benjamin Myers
The come-back of a one-and-a-half-hit soul wonder.