Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
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: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.
Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.
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: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.