A winter journal.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Sea Room’ by Adam Nicolson
The story of one man, three islands and half a million puffins.
Book review: ‘Round About Town’ by Kevin Boniface
Diary of a postman.
Book review: ‘Time Song’ by Julia Blackburn
Searching for Doggerland
Book review: ‘Under the Rock’ by Benjamin Myers
The poetry of a place.
Book review: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Book review: ‘W.G. Sebald’ by Uwe Schütte
The writer and his work.
Book review: ‘Draft No. 4’ by John McPhee
Essays on factual writing.
Book review: ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ by Jan Morris
A thought diary.