Catholic priest ‘caught snorting cocaine in Nazi room’ shock!
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘At Hawthorn Time’ by Melissa Harrison
An extraordinary modern rural novel.
Book review: ‘Life, Love and the Archers’ by Wendy Cope
Recollections, reviews and other prose.
Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
The Invention of Nature
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Join the cue
Police could use fire stations in Essex proposal.
Watching ‘The Bourne Identity’ with my dad…
‘Did she just say she was Mr Kane's pregnant sister?’
‘Cursed child parts’?
A very unfortunate choice of title for a play.
A Walk at the Edge of the World
by Nicholas Bone, Sans façon and Ian Cameron The script of a play about walking. Stense bought me this book, which is the script to a play she saw. She thought I'd like it. I did, very much indeed. As I wrote to Stense, after reading the script twice, the play is clearly heavily influenced… Continue reading A Walk at the Edge of the World
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold American nature classic. It turns out that this classic of American nature writing had somehow completely eluded this nature-writing fanboy. This might well be due to my rather parochial enjoyment of the genre. Perhaps I should branch out across the Pond more often. Well done to Jen for spotting a reference to… Continue reading A Sand County Almanac