Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
books
Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.
Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
Announcing my new photobook, ‘Hebden's Other Bridges’
My photo-book of bridges in the Hebden Bridge area is now available.
Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
Bookshelf triage
When bookshelves become full, only the fittest volumes survive.