Humorous memoir from the future Poet Laureate.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘The Sea View Has Me Again’ by Patrick Wright
Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (1974–1984).
Book review: ‘Renegade’ by Mark E. Smith
The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith.
Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
Book review: ‘Ghost Town’ by Jeff Young
A Liverpool shadowplay.
Book review: ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ by Francis Kilvert
The diary of a Victorian country curate.
Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe
A magnificent ten-volume series of weekly diary-entries-cum-essays.