Alan Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
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
Book review: ‘Unclassified: a Walker Evans anthology’
Extracts from the celebrated photographer’s archive.
Book review: ‘Bread of Angels’ by Patti Smith
A memoir.
Book review: ‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith
40 years in the Scottish wilderness.
Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard
A short memoir of random recollections.
Book review: ‘Jesus Christ Kinski’ by Benjamin Myers
A novel about a film about a performance about Jesus.
Book review: ‘The Red Tenda of Bologna’ by John Berger
A short memoir-cum-essay on the city of Bologna and an enigmatic uncle.
Book review: ‘The Gold Machine’ by Iain Sinclair
Tracking the ancestors from Highlands to coffee colony
Book review: ‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince
Writer and comedian tours 104 bookshops, buying far too many books as he does so.