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‘Bread of Angels’ by Patti Smith

Book review: ‘Bread of Angels’ by Patti Smith

A memoir.

‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith

Book review: ‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith

40 years in the Scottish wilderness.

‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen

Book review: ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen

More of the same from Jane.

‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard

Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard

A short memoir of random recollections.

‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit

Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit

Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!

‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit

Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit

Essays on feminism for everyone.

‘Jesus Christ Kinski’ by Benjamin Myers

Book review: ‘Jesus Christ Kinski’ by Benjamin Myers

A novel about a film about a performance about Jesus.

‘Domination’ by Alice Roberts

Book review: ‘Domination’ by Alice Roberts

How the Christian Church rose to prominence in the wake of the Roman Empire.

‘The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem’ by Jeremy Noel-Tod

Book review: ‘The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem’ by Jeremy Noel-Tod

An anthology of poems without line breaks.

‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ by Simon Armitage

Book review: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ by Simon Armitage

An excellent alliterative translation of a medieval masterpiece.

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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