Reviews
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Book review: ‘Round About Town’ by Kevin Boniface
Diary of a postman.
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Book review: ‘The Tree’ by John Fowles
Dissing science (and art) for no good reason.
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Book review: ‘Time Song’ by Julia Blackburn
Searching for Doggerland
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Book review: ‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson
The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
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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’.
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Book review: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
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Book review: ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’ by Roger Deakin
The jottings of a great observer of nature’s minutiae.
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Book review: ‘Draft No. 4’ by John McPhee
Essays on factual writing.
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Book review: ‘Watling Street’ by John Higgs
Travels through Britain and its ever-present past.
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Book review: ‘All Among the Barley’ by Melissa Harrison
Rural idylls weren’t quite as idyllic as they seemed.