A short memoir-cum-essay on the city of Bologna and an enigmatic uncle.
Reviews: Travel
Book review: ‘The Gold Machine’ by Iain Sinclair
Tracking the ancestors from Highlands to coffee colony
Book review: ‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince
Writer and comedian tours 104 bookshops, buying far too many books as he does so.
Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane
Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?
Book review: ‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden
A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
Book review: ‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ by Barry Lopez
A thoughtfully observed posthumous collection of essays.
Book Review: ‘Radical By Nature’ by James T. Costa
The revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Book review: ‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova
A journey to the edge of Europe.
Book review: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris
Place writing at its finest, and most personal.
Book review: ‘Unofficial Britain’ by Gareth E. Rees
Journeys through unexpected places.