Writing

Late autumn

Under self-imposed semi-house-arrest. Phase two of the Squirrel Wars. Binge reading. A brace of anniversaries.
Book review: ‘The Smoking Diaries’ by Simon Gray

Vol. 1 of playwright Simon Gray’s amusing and meandering reminiscences.
Book review: ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin (1st ed., 1859)

…or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Book review: ‘Agent Running in the Field’ by John le Carré

Spycraft and badminton in Brexit Britain.
Book review: ‘Renegade’ by Mark E. Smith

The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith.
Book review: ‘Austerlitz’ by W.G. Sebald

A haunting novel. File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘Tamed’ by Alice Roberts

Ten species that changed our world.
Book review: ‘Mountains of the Mind’ by Robert Macfarlane

A history of a fascination.
Book review: ‘The Overhaul’ by Kathleen Jamie

A fantastic poetry collection.
Book review: ‘Ghosts on the Shore’ by Paul Scraton

Travels along Germany’s Baltic coast.
Book review: ‘After Nature’ by W.G. Sebald

Three long-form poems, best read as prose.
Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald

An unclassifiable masterpiece.