Definitely not a writing guide.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Life, Love and the Archers’ by Wendy Cope
Recollections, reviews and other prose.
Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
Book review: ‘Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives’ by Mr Frank Key
A medium-sized mass of potted nonsense.
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘A Book of Silence’ by Sara Maitland
A journey is search of the pleasure and powers of silence.
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Book review: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives together.
Book review: ‘Under a Broad Sky’ by Ronald Blythe
Book 8 in the Wormingford series.