Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Essays
The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe
A magnificent ten-volume series of weekly diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
Definitely not a writing guide.
Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris
A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall
A brilliant collection of mostly humorous essays from the late American poet.
Book review: ‘How to be Right’ by James O’Brien
How to be right in a world gone wrong.
Book review: ‘Aftermath’ by Ronald Blythe
Selected writings, 1960–2010.
Book review: ‘Surfacing’ by Kathleen Jamie
A third collection of wonderful essays from my favourite writer.
Book review: ‘A Claxton Diary’ by Mark Cocker
Further field notes from a small planet.
Book review: ‘First You Write a Sentence’ by Joe Moran
The elements of reading, writing… and life.