Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Ghost Town’ by Jeff Young
A Liverpool shadowplay.
Book review: ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ by Francis Kilvert
The diary of a Victorian country curate.
Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe
A magnificent ten-volume series of weekly diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall
A brilliant collection of mostly humorous essays from the late American poet.
Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris
A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee
Journeys in Springtime.