The diary of a Victorian country curate.
Book review: ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ by Francis Kilvert
Reviews
Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
Book review: ‘Into the Tangled Bank’ by Lev Parikian
In which our author ventures outdoors to consider the British in nature.
Book review: ‘Across the Land and the Water’ by W.G. Sebald
Selected poems, 1964–2001.
Book review: ‘The Faraway Nearby’ by Rebecca Solnit
A curiously compelling mix of memoir and anti-memoir.
Book review: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee
A celebration of gulls.
The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe
A magnificent ten-volume series of weekly diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
Definitely not a writing guide.