Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
Book review: ‘A Private Spy: the letters of John le Carré, 1945-2020’
Fascinating insights into the mind of a great novelist.
Book review: ‘Northerners‘ by Brian Groom
A history of Northern England from the Ice Age to the present day.
Book review: ‘Allegorizings‘ by Jan Morris
Eclectic crepuscular essays.
Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
Book review: ‘The Bonniest Companie’ by Kathleen Jamie
A wonderful collection of poems.
Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit
Pleasure, truth, and roses.
Book review: ‘The Emergence of Memory’ by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (ed.)
Interviews with, and essays about, the late W.G. Sebald.
Book review: ‘Speak, Memory’ by Vladimir Nabokov
An autobiography revisited.
Book review: ‘Reality Hunger’ by David Shields
A manifesto.
Book review: ‘Wanderers’ by Kerri Andrews
A history of women walking.
Book review: ‘Sense and Sensibility’ by Jane Austen
Like Jeeves and Wooster without all the ‘What-ho?!’s.