Author: Richard Carter

by Geoff Dyer Occasionally amusing travel pieces. I only discovered Geoff Dyer's writing recently. I very much enjoyed his Working the Room and The Missing of the Somme, but Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It didn't do much for me, I'm afraid to say. The individual ‘travel’ pieces were OK, but… Continue reading Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It

by Richard Mabey A little book about the weather. Like its predecessor, The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn, this is a very short book based on a series of 15-minute radio programmes. Like its predecessor, you can read this book in a single sitting. In this case, though, the book is about the British obsession with… Continue reading Turned Out Nice Again