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‘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
‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen

Book review: ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen

More of the same from Jane.

Published 04-Jan-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Fiction Tags: reviews
Choughs

2025 in a nutshell

My fifteenth annual slideshow of the year.

Published 01-Jan-2026
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ambient pap, yearly nutshells
‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard

Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard

A short memoir of random recollections.

Published 27-Dec-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: reviews
‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit

Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit

Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!

Published 27-Dec-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Culture Tags: reviews

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On the Moor

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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