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On the Moor
My book about science, history and nature on a country walk.
Published articles
Articles I wrote that have been published elsewhere.
Sidelines
Regularly updated short-form stuff I write when I ought to be writing other stuff. Mostly ‘nature writing’. A blog, I suppose.
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Short, perfectly formed, and not at all spammy… Just like its author.

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Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris

‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris

A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.

Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed

Semi-immersed

writing & research · milestones · Anthea Bell · island wardens · hillforts · pubs · oak trees · ancient ships · self-improvement · Mark Cocker · Jan Morris · Melissa Harrison

Book review: ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ by Jan Morris

In My Mind's Eye

A thought diary.

Recent Newsletters

Recent Newsletters

Newsletter No. 19: Comfort Reading
Melissa Harrison · Tim Dee · Horatio Clare · John Mitchinson · Ronald Blythe · Mary Beard · Benjamin Myers · Zack Arias · Eric Newby · greenland sharks · Maunsell forts · England rugby · Charles Darwin (obviously)
Newsletter No. 18: 169 in giraffe-years
Julian Hoffman · CGP Grey · WG Sebald · Kathleen Jamie · Tim Dee · LRB · Alan Bennett · Caught by the River

News

News

2019: a year in photos
My ninth annual video slideshow.
An embarrassment of Richards
In which my head appears on a spike (six times).
Introducing Sidelines
A new section on my website dedicated to the (mostly nature) writing I write ‘on the side’. Definitely not a diary.

Recent Articles

Recent Articles

Grandma’s organ donation
On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.
Orion’s belt-buckle
In celebration of my adopted star.

Recent Sidelines

Recent Sidelines

5 July 2020
A wet week.
30 June 2020
The delights of a wet day.
27 June 2020
A friend’s dogs are frightened by an unexpected guest. Another dog remains as reluctant as ever.
25 June 2020
A walk through the woods, and an owl encounter.
21 June 2020
Distracted by the bird-table.

Recent Reviews

Recent Reviews

Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Into the Tangled Bank’ by Lev Parikian
In which our author ventures outdoors to consider the British in nature.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.

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