The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.
Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
Book review: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee
A celebration of gulls.
Book review: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Collected Poems’ edited by Anthony Thwaite
All of Larkin’s poems in one handy volume.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar. Not once. Not for Eyes Wide Shut. Not for Knight and Day. Not even for Mission: Impossible 2. He has come tantalisingly close a few times. Like when he played opposite Oscar-scooping Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. And when his first ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, won an Academy Award… Continue reading Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Book review: ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.
Book review: ‘Human Evolution’ by Bernard Wood
A very short introduction.