The story of our love affair with books.
Reviews: Culture
Reviews about art and culture (including writing technique).
Book review: ‘W.G. Sebald’ by Uwe Schütte
The writer and his work.
Book review: ‘Renegade’ by Mark E. Smith
The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith.
Book review: ‘The Secret Life of Books’ by Tom Mole
Why they mean more than words.
Book review: ‘The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction’ by Sally Cline & Midge Gillies
Writing about Travel, Nature, Food, Feminism, History, Science, Death, Friendship and Sexuality.
Book review: ‘First You Write a Sentence’ by Joe Moran
The elements of reading, writing… and life.
Book review: ‘Draft No. 4’ by John McPhee
Essays on factual writing.
Book review: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
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.