A biography of the early Ordnance Survey.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Required Writing’ by Philip Larkin
Required reading.
Book review: ‘The Best of Me’ by David Sedaris
Humorous memoir anthology.
Book review: ‘Base Notes’ by Adelle Stripe
A tender, frank and funny memoir.
Book review: ‘In the Dark Room’ by Brian Dillon
A memoir on memory, loss, heirlooms, places, photographs and other remnants.
Book review: ‘Lifelines’ by Julian Hoffman
Searching for home in the mountains of Greece.
Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 5’
A final volume of diaries, covering a momentous time in British and European history.
Book review: ‘Blythe Spirit’ by Ian Collins
The remarkable life of Ronald Blythe.
Book Review: ‘Every Man for Himself and God Against All’ by Werner Herzog
A memoir.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 30 • 1882’
The end of a magnificent era.