Reviews
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Book review: ‘Pride And Prejudice’ by Jane Austen
More toffs wittering on about stuff.
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Book review: ‘Darwin Comes to Town’ by Menno Schilthuizen
How the urban jungle drives evolution
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 9 • 1861’
Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
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Book review: ‘A Private Spy: the letters of John le Carré, 1945-2020’
Fascinating insights into the mind of a great novelist.
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Book review: ‘Northerners‘ by Brian Groom
A history of Northern England from the Ice Age to the present day.
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Book review: ‘Allegorizings‘ by Jan Morris
Eclectic crepuscular essays.
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Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
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Book review: ‘The Bonniest Companie’ by Kathleen Jamie
A wonderful collection of poems.
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Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit
Pleasure, truth, and roses.
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Book review: ‘The Emergence of Memory’ by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (ed.)
Interviews with, and essays about, the late W.G. Sebald.
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Book review: ‘Speak, Memory’ by Vladimir Nabokov
An autobiography revisited.
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Book review: ‘Reality Hunger’ by David Shields
A manifesto.