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17 December 2020
Spectacular winter light, and a brace of deer.
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11 December 2020
The early winter weather has been changeable to say the least.
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Book review: ‘Life, Love and the Archers’ by Wendy Cope
Recollections, reviews and other prose.
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Book review: ‘W.G. Sebald’ by Uwe Schütte
The writer and his work.
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Book review: ‘Coda’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 4 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
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Book review: ‘The Last Cigarette’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 3 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
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Book review: ‘The Year of the Jouncer’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 2 of ‘The Smoking Diaries’.
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Let the tweaking commence!
In which I decide to break a self-imposed rule.
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Late autumn
Under self-imposed semi-house-arrest. Phase two of the Squirrel Wars. Binge reading. A brace of anniversaries.
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Book review: ‘The Smoking Diaries’ by Simon Gray
Vol. 1 of playwright Simon Gray’s amusing and meandering reminiscences.
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Book review: ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin (1st ed., 1859)
…or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.