File under Sebaldian.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’ by Rebecca Stott
Charles Darwin’s eight-year barnacle odyssey.
Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘The Smoking Diaries’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 1 of playwright Simon Gray’s amusing and meandering reminiscences.
Book review: ‘The Year of the Jouncer’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 2 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
Book review: ‘The Last Cigarette’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 3 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
Book review: ‘Coda’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 4 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
Book review: ‘Nature Cure’ by Richard Mabey
Nature writer recovers from depression by reconnecting with nature.
Book review: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin's first masterpiece.
Book review: ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’ by Roger Deakin
The jottings of a great observer of nature’s minutiae.