Reviews
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Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
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Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald
Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.
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Book review: ‘The Instant’ by Amy Liptrot
The follow-up to the best-selling ‘The Outrun’.
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Book review: ‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova
A journey to the edge of Europe.
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Book review: ‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by W.N.P. Barbellion
A deliberately self-inflated masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘Albert & the Whale’ by Philip Hoare
An eclectic biography.
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Book review: ‘Stasiland’ by Anna Funder
Stories from behind the Berlin Wall.
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Book review: ‘The Diversity of Life’ by Edward O. Wilson
On our most valuable but least appreciated resource.
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Book review: ‘Writing to Learn’ by William Zinsser
The best way to find out if you understand something is to write about it.
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Book review: ‘The Art of Creative Nonfiction’ by Lee Gutkind
Writing and selling the literature of reality.
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Book review: ‘A Year Unfolding’ by Angela Harding
Ever since, at school, I made a crappy linocut of Tony the Tiger, copied from the front of a box of Kellogg’s Frosties, I’ve been a fan of the format. Linocuts, I mean; not cereal boxes. It’s one of those things the frustrated visual artist in me keeps saying he’d like to have another go…