History
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Book review: ‘After Nature’ by W.G. Sebald
Three long-form poems, best read as prose.
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Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald
An unclassifiable masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.
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Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.
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Book review: ‘At the Yeoman’s House’ by Ronald Blythe
Short book about veteran author’s extremely old house.
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Book review: ‘Bully for Brontosaurus’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in natural history.
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Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
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Book review: ‘Rising Ground’ by Philip Marsden
A search for the spirit of place.
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Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
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Book review: ‘Something of His Art’ by Horatio Clare
Walking to Lübeck with J.S. Bach.
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Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
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Book review: ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie
A second volume of superb ‘nature writing’.