A winter journal.
Book review: ‘The Light in the Dark’ by Horatio Clare
People
Book review: ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie
A second volume of superb ‘nature writing’.
Book review: ‘Findings’ by Kathleen Jamie
Nature writing from the other side of the fence.
Book review: ‘Round About Town’ by Kevin Boniface
Diary of a postman.
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: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.
Book review: ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ by Jan Morris
A thought diary.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
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.