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Book review: ‘Watling Street’ by John Higgs

Watling Street

Travels through Britain and its ever-present past.

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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. Definitely not a blog.

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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