Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson
In search of rockpools and other miracles.
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Book Review: ‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett
Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.
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Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin answers his critics re. the evolution of complex adaptations.
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Book Review: ‘The Edge of Silence’ by Neil Ansell
In search of the disappearing sounds of nature.
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St Patrick’s Day
On St Patrick’s connection with North Wales, and the debunking of a famous biogeographical myth.
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Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W. G. Sebald
A posthumous Selbaldian collection.
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Book review: ‘The Future of Truth’ by Werner Herzog
What we mean when we talk of ‘truth’ and how to cope in our post-truth era.
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Book review: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow
A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White.
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Book review: ‘Unclassified: a Walker Evans anthology’
Extracts from the celebrated photographer’s archive.
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Literary conventions
Photographers are not unsuccessful painters, and factual writers are not wannabe novelists.
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Book review: ‘The Running Hare’ by John Lewis-Stempel
The secret life of farmland.
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