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Writing tagged: ‘Ronald Blythe’

Book review: ‘A Writer’s Day-Book’ by Ronald Blythe

‘A Writer’s Day-Book’ by Ronald Blythe

Essays about books and authors.

Published 24-Feb-2021
Filed under: Writing Genres: Culture, Essays, People Tags: Ronald Blythe

Comfort books

Reading

A conversation with a friend about the books that have brought us comfort over the years.

Published 01-Jan-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: books, Kathleen Jamie, Ronald Blythe, Stense, W.G. Sebald, Wormingford series

Book review: ‘At the Yeoman’s House’ by Ronald Blythe

‘At the Yeoman’s House’ by Ronald Blythe

Short book about veteran author’s extremely old house.

Published 23-Oct-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: History, Nature & Place Tags: reviews, Ronald Blythe

Newsletter No. 19: Comfort Reading

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)

Published 10-May-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Ben Myers, coronavirus, Darwin book, Horatio Clare, John Mitchinson, Mary Beard, Melissa Harrison, Ronald Blythe, Tim Dee

The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe

The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe

A magnificent ten-volume series of weekly diary-entries-cum-essays.

Published 03-May-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: Essays, Nature & Place Tags: reviews, Ronald Blythe, Wormingford series

Book review: ‘Aftermath’ by Ronald Blythe

‘Aftermath’ by Ronald Blythe

Selected writings, 1960–2010.

Published 20-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: Essays Tags: reviews, Ronald Blythe

Newsletter No. 12: Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs

Mill in snow

Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall

Published 16-Feb-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alan Bennett, Charles Darwin, evolution, history of science, John Tyndall, On the Moor (book), Ronald Blythe, science

‘Stour Seasons’ by Ronald Blythe

‘Stour Seasons’ by Ronald Blythe

Book 10 in the Wormingford series.

Published 01-Jan-2012
Filed under: Writing Genres: Essays, Nature & Place Tags: reviews, Ronald Blythe, Wormingford series

‘In the Artist’s Garden’ by Ronald Blythe

‘In the Artist’s Garden’ by Ronald Blythe

Book 9 in the Wormingford series.

Published 01-Jan-2012
Filed under: Writing Genres: Essays, Nature & Place Tags: reviews, Ronald Blythe, Wormingford series

‘Under a Broad Sky’ by Ronald Blythe

‘Under a Broad Sky’ by Ronald Blythe

Book 8 in the Wormingford series.

Published 01-Jan-2012
Filed under: Writing Genres: Essays, Nature & Place Tags: reviews, Ronald Blythe, Wormingford series

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