A tender, frank and funny memoir.
Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
Book review: ‘In the Dark Room’ by Brian Dillon
A memoir on memory, loss, heirlooms, places, photographs and other remnants.
Book review: ‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’ by Richard Dawkins
A Darwinian reverie.
Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane
Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?
Book review: ‘Lifelines’ by Julian Hoffman
Searching for home in the mountains of Greece.
Book review: ‘The Celts’ by Alice Roberts
Searching for a civilisation.
Book review: ‘Photography: a very short introduction’ by Steve Edwards
Thoughts on important photographic topics.
Book review: ‘See/Saw’ by Geoff Dyer
Looking at photographs.
Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne
Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
Book review: ‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie
Poems in Scots.