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Books read in 2022

Recent Newsletters

Newsletter No. 24: ‘Unclassifiable’
W.G. Sebald · Jan Morris · Jonathan Meades · prehistoric megafauna · Rebecca Solnit · complex numbers · Vikings! · Richard Mabey · Jeff Young · Horatio Clare · chess · Charles Darwin (obviously)
Newsletter No. 23: Emerging from aestivation
Massimo Pigliucci · ‘spirituality’ · Barry Lopez · talking trees · Eleanor Konik · rewilding · Mark Cocker · light pollution · Sir Clive Sinclair · Horatio Clare · swifts · The Enlightenment

Recent Sidelines

Reading more eclectically
The more eclectically you read, the better your chances of making unexpected connections between different topics.
Storm Arwen
In which I (again) bemoan the naming of storms, and experience what it’s like to go off grid.
A trip out
A spin around the Yorkshire Dales

Recent Articles

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.

News

2021: a year in photos
My eleventh annual video slideshow.
HebWeb interview
I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.

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