A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
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Reviews of biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, memoirs, and other ‘life writing’.
Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend
The Pattern of Friendship.
Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
Book review: ‘A Book of Silence’ by Sara Maitland
A journey in search of the pleasure and powers of silence.
Book review: ‘Doubling Back’ by Linda Cracknell
Ten paths trodden in memory.