Amy Liptrot – Richard Carter

My unplanned archives

Collections of informally documented stuff have become my archives of sorts.

Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’

The Pros and Cons of tying the knot · prehistoric invention · Ernest Shackleton · W.G. Sebald · swallows · comma splices · Amy Liptrot · Kapka Kassabova

Book review: ‘The Instant’ by Amy Liptrot

The follow-up to the best-selling ‘The Outrun’.

Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’

Research triage · filing your nuggets · pupil shapes · Amy Liptrot · moths and bats · critical reading · early medieval history · Tim Dee · book reviews

Noctilucent clouds

One of the advantages of living in the same area as a number of other nature-writerish types is you occasionally receive really good tip-offs.

Newsletter No. 21: ‘Positively sluggish’

Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…