writer & photographer

Books read in 2020

Here are the books I read in 2020. Click a cover to read my review.

Recent Newsletters

Newsletter No. 22: His glib, beardless chops
Insensitive teenager · Helen Macdonald · Patrick Barkham · Richard Mabey · Julian Hoffman · photography · Mars · Christina Riley · icebergs · bowling alleys · cassette tapes · Richard Thompson · Antikythera mechanism · and more…
Newsletter No. 21: Positively sluggish
Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…

Giving fiascos a bad name
How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.
Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin
To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

2020: a year in photos
My tenth annual video slideshow.
Bats podcast piece
I make a guest appearance in episode 16 of Melissa Harrison’s podcast ‘The Stubborn Light of Things’. Here’s an extended version.

Richard Carter

The whole is greater than some of its parts