Notes nearing ninety.
Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
reviews
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
Book review: ‘Into the Tangled Bank’ by Lev Parikian
In which our author ventures outdoors to consider the British in nature.
Book review: ‘How to be Right’ by James O’Brien
…in a world gone wrong.
Book review: ‘In Pursuit of Spring’ by Edward Thomas
Cycling across southern England in early 1913.
Book review: ‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall
A brilliant collection of mostly humorous essays from the late American poet.
Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris
A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee
Journeys in Springtime.
Book review: ‘A Single Swallow’ by Horatio Clare
Following the migration from South Africa to South Wales.