Unclassifiable masterpiece.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘Nature Cure’ by Richard Mabey
Nature writer recovers from depression by reconnecting with nature.
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: ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’ by Roger Deakin
The jottings of a great observer of nature’s minutiae.
Book review: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin's first masterpiece.
Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.