Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

That's more like it!

Totally unlike crappy hurricanes and tropical cyclones, don't volcanoes have bloody awesome names?

I'm sorry, I have a kazoo

On Friday evening, Jen and I went to St George's Hall in Bradford to watch two recordings of the long-running comedy radio panel game, ‘I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue’.

How to Write Everything

by David Quantick A fun and funny book. This is a fun (and funny) book. David Quantick has written in most genres, and this is his guide about how you can to. Do you see what I did, there? I wrote something. Q.E.D.

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Night Walks

by Charles Dickens Victorian essays. Night Walks is vol. 88 in Penguin's Great Ideas series of little books by ‘great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilisation and helped make us who we are’. In the case of this particular book, I think that's stretching things a bit. Not that Night Walks isn't… Continue reading Night Walks

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Deer Island

by Neil Ansell An unexpected memoir. Deer Island was not at all what I expected. Having thoroughly enjoyed Neil Ansell's previous book, Deep Country: five years in the Welsh hills, and seeing his new book's title, I naively assumed that this was going to be more of the same: very personal nature writing. As it… Continue reading Deer Island

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Meadowland

by John Lewis-Stempel The private life of an English field. Meadowland is an account of a year in the field's of John Lewis-Stempel's farm in Herefordshire. His family has been rooted in the area for centuries. It is clearly a place he loves very much. Lewis-Stempel comes across as a traditional landed countryman, with a… Continue reading Meadowland

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