Pleasure, truth, and roses.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘Wanderers’ by Kerri Andrews
A history of women walking.
Book review: ‘84, Charing Cross Road‘ by Helene Hanff
A book-lovers’ classic.
Book review: ‘The Instant’ by Amy Liptrot
The follow-up to the best-selling ‘The Outrun’.
Book review: ‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by W.N.P. Barbellion
A deliberately self-inflated masterpiece.
Book review: ‘Albert & the Whale’ by Philip Hoare
An eclectic biography.
Book review: ‘Stasiland’ by Anna Funder
Stories from behind the Berlin Wall.
Book review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas classic, wonderfully illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Book review: ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez
Memoir, place and empathy.
Book review: ‘Speak, Silence’ by Carole Angier
In search of W.G. Sebald.