Richard Carter

Getting jittery about swallows

It’s getting to that time of year again. Swallows are on their way.
My bat-shit crazy hypothesis about rooks

A ridiculous observation concerning rooks, which can’t possibly be right.
Book review: ‘A Book of Silence’ by Sara Maitland

A journey in search of the pleasure and powers of silence.
Putting the wet in wetland

Our moorlands are—or should be—important wetland habitats.
Book review: ‘Doubling Back’ by Linda Cracknell

Ten paths trodden in memory.
Book review: ‘Wanderlust’ by Rebecca Solnit

A history of walking.
Grouse in winter

How red grouse change their habits in cold weather.
Tales of derring-don’t

I’m beginning to wonder whether I might inadvertently have begun to invent a new sub-genre of ‘nature writing’.
Primroses v Wurlitzers

George Orwell on the simpler pleasures.
Prize-winning author lost on Moor

When your instincts and your compass disagree, trust your instincts. I mean your compass.
Sebald’s TV listing

When you enter into Sebald’s universe, it seems to me, you have to play along.
What I read in 2014

I read 36 books in 2014. This shows an uncharacteristic degree of consistency on my behalf.