The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
History
Book review: ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie
A second volume of superb ‘nature writing’.
Book review: ‘Sea Room’ by Adam Nicolson
The story of one man, three islands and half a million puffins.
Book review: ‘Time Song’ by Julia Blackburn
Searching for Doggerland
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
Book review: ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin
Wandering about Patagonia with no clear plan in mind.
Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger
Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.