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Book review: ‘Writing to Learn’ by William Zinsser
The best way to find out if you understand something is to write about it.
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Book review: ‘The Art of Creative Nonfiction’ by Lee Gutkind
Writing and selling the literature of reality.
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Book review: ‘A Year Unfolding’ by Angela Harding
Ever since, at school, I made a crappy linocut of Tony the Tiger, copied from the front of a box of Kellogg’s Frosties, I’ve been a fan of the format. Linocuts, I mean; not cereal boxes. It’s one of those things the frustrated visual artist in me keeps saying he’d like to have another go…
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Reading more eclectically
The more eclectically you read, the better your chances of making unexpected connections between different topics.
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Book review: ‘Birdsong in a Time of Silence’ by Steven Lovatt
A celebration of birdsong during a pandemic.
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Book review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas classic, wonderfully illustrated by Peter Bailey.
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Book review: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris
Place writing at its finest, and most personal.
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Book review: ‘Pedro and Ricky Come Again’ by Jonathan Meades
Selected Writing 1988-2020.