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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.
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Book review: ‘Agent Running in the Field’ by John le Carré
Spycraft and badminton in Brexit Britain.
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Book review: ‘Renegade’ by Mark E. Smith
The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith.
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Book review: ‘Austerlitz’ by W.G. Sebald
A haunting novel. File under Sebaldian.
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Book review: ‘Tamed’ by Alice Roberts
Ten species that changed our world.
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Book review: ‘Mountains of the Mind’ by Robert Macfarlane
A history of a fascination.
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Book review: ‘The Overhaul’ by Kathleen Jamie
A fantastic poetry collection.