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‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson

Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson

In search of rockpools and other miracles.

Published 09-Apr-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: reviews
‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett

Book Review: ‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.

Published 05-Apr-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture Tags: reviews
‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin

Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin

Darwin responds to his critics.

Published 05-Apr-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Nature Writing, Science Tags: charles darwin, reviews
‘The Edge of Silence’ by Neil Ansell

Book Review: ‘The Edge of Silence’ by Neil Ansell

In search of the disappearing sounds of nature.

Published 05-Apr-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Nature Writing Tags: reviews
‘The Future of Truth’ by Werner Herzog

Book review: ‘The Future of Truth’ by Werner Herzog

What we mean when we talk of ‘truth’ and how to cope in our post-truth era.

Published 16-Mar-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Culture Tags: reviews
‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow

Book review: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow

A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White

Published 16-Mar-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir, Nature Writing Tags: reviews
‘Unclassified - a Walker Evans anthology’

Book review: ‘Unclassified: a Walker Evans anthology’

Extracts from the celebrated photographer’s archive.

Published 16-Mar-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture Tags: reviews
‘The Running Hare’ by John Lewis-Stempel

Book review: ‘The Running Hare’ by John Lewis-Stempel

The secret life of farmland.

Published 17-Feb-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Nature Writing Tags: reviews
‘Bread of Angels’ by Patti Smith

Book review: ‘Bread of Angels’ by Patti Smith

A memoir.

Published 17-Feb-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: patti smith, reviews
‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith

Book review: ‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith

40 years in the Scottish wilderness.

Published 17-Feb-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir, Nature Writing Tags: reviews

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On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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