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Reviews: Biography/Memoir

‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit

Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit

Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.

Published 11-Oct-2014
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Nature Writing Tags: reviews
‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

Book review: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives together.

Published 06-Dec-2013
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture Tags: patti smith, reviews
‘Under a Broad Sky’ by Ronald Blythe

Book review: ‘Under a Broad Sky’ by Ronald Blythe

Book 8 in the Wormingford series.

Published 15-Nov-2013
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Nature Writing Tags: ronald blythe, wormingford series
‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald

Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.

Published 09-Jun-2013
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture, History, Sebaldian Tags: sebald
‘Village Hours’ by Ronald Blythe

Book review: ‘Village Hours’ by Ronald Blythe

Book 7 in the Wormingford series.

Published 05-May-2013
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Nature Writing Tags: ronald blythe, wormingford series
‘Speak, Memory’ by Vladimir Nabokov

Book review: ‘Speak, Memory’ by Vladimir Nabokov

An autobiography revisited.

Published 22-Sep-2012
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: reviews
‘On Writing’ by Stephen King

Book review: ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King

A memoir of the craft

Published 05-Jun-2012
Darwin and the Barnacle

Book review: ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’ by Rebecca Stott

Charles Darwin’s eight-year barnacle odyssey.

Published 18-Dec-2011
‘Campo Santo’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W.G. Sebald

File under Sebaldian.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Sebaldian Tags: sebald
‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald

File under Sebaldian.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture, Fiction, History, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, sebald

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