How the North Sea made us who we are.
Reviews: History
The Invention of Nature
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Book review: ‘Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives’ by Mr Frank Key
A medium-sized mass of potted nonsense.
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution.
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald
Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.
Book review: ‘London Orbital’ by Iain Sinclair
Walking around the M25.
Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald
Unclassifiable masterpiece.