Six months of illness, and lots of botany.
Reviews: History
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 9 • 1861’
Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
Book review: ‘Northerners‘ by Brian Groom
A history of Northern England from the Ice Age to the present day.
Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit
Pleasure, truth, and roses.
Book review: ‘The Northern Question’ by Tom Hazeldine
British politics and the North-South divide.
Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
Book review: ‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova
A journey to the edge of Europe.
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: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris
Place writing at its finest, and most personal.