Skip to content
Gruts

Gruts

🦆

  • Home
  • Contents
  • About
  • Books
  • Random

Writing tagged: ‘reviews’

‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Book review: ‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Summer friendship in the North Riding.

Published 28-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Fiction Tags: ben myers, reviews
‘The Laws of Thermodynamics’ by Peter Atkins

Book review: ‘The Laws of Thermodynamics’ by Peter Atkins

A very short introduction.

Published 22-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Science Tags: reviews
‘Stour Seasons’ by Ronald Blythe

Book review: ‘Stour Seasons’ by Ronald Blythe

Book 10 in the Wormingford series.

Published 22-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Nature Writing Tags: reviews, ronald blythe
‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

Book review: ‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

A haunting prose-poem (I think).

Published 08-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Poetry, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, robert macfarlane
‘Evolution’ by Brian & Deborah Charlesworth

Book review: ‘Evolution’ by Brian & Deborah Charlesworth

A very short introduction.

Published 08-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: reviews
‘The Jeeves Omnibus, vol. 2’ by P.G. Wodehouse

Book review: ‘The Jeeves Omnibus, vol. 2’ by P.G. Wodehouse

Oh, I say!

Published 08-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Fiction Tags: reviews
‘Darwin’ by Jonathan Howard

Book review: ‘Darwin’ by Jonathan Howard

A very short introduction.

Published 08-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: reviews
‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith

Book review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith

Further quirky memoirs.

Published 10-Nov-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: patti smith, reviews
‘The End of Epilepsy?’ by Dieter Schmidt & Simon Shorvon

Book review: ‘The End of Epilepsy?’ by Dieter Schmidt & Simon Shorvon

A history of the modern era of epilepsy 1860–2010.

Published 27-Oct-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: reviews
‘Of Walking in Ice’ by Werner Herzog

Book review: ‘Of Walking in Ice’ by Werner Herzog

A quest to save a friend.

Published 27-Oct-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Sebaldian Tags: reviews

Posts pagination

Newer posts Page 1 … Page 22 … Page 28 Older posts

BUY MY BOOK!

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
Buy at Amazon: UK | .com | etc.

RECENT PHOTOS

More photos »

RECENT READING

RECENT COMMENTS

  1. Elaine on Bobby Brewster

    Sutton Coldfield! He visited our school there too - Blackwood Junior School. Would have been prior to July 1974. What…

  2. Keith Beach on Fountain pen mod

    You should have let the woman with the fingernails sort out your pen blockage. Make HERself useful!

  3. Oven on FAQ: Why is this website called Gruts?

    According to this book I have, ‘The Scots Dialect Dictionary’, published by Waverley Books Ltd, “grut” is “the refuse of…

  4. Tony Hollick on Decrepitude

    Happy birthday from the Nite Owl

  • @friendsofdarwin on Twitter
  • My Facebook page
  • My Instagram account
  • My photos on Flickr
Gruts

Made in Europe