Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book review: ‘A Private Spy: the letters of John le Carré, 1945-2020’
Fascinating insights into the mind of a great novelist.
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Book review: ‘Northerners‘ by Brian Groom
A history of Northern England from the Ice Age to the present day.
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Book review: ‘Allegorizings‘ by Jan Morris
Eclectic crepuscular essays.
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Cambridge Darwin pilgrimage
A trip to see a treasure-trove of Darwinalia.
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Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
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Book review: ‘The Bonniest Companie’ by Kathleen Jamie
A wonderful collection of poems.
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Charles Darwin’s note-making system
An exploration of how Darwin kept track of his various notes, enabling him to produce a huge body of work.
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My notes ‘tagsonomy’
An overly nerdish description of the taxonomy I use to classify my various notes.
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On the rocks
What I saw sitting on my favourite rock.