Writing
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Book review: ‘The World-Ending Fire‘ by Wendell Berry
The essential Wendell Berry.
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Book review: ‘Writing Landscape’ by Linda Cracknell
Essays on landscape and writing.
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Book review: ‘Napoleon’ by David A. Bell
A short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 18 • 1870’
Putting the finishing touches to ‘The Descent of Man’.
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Unpolished words
There are good reasons why your first draft should be bad.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 17 • 1869’
Researching human evolution, human and animal emotions, and sexual selection.
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A brace of raptors
Two close-encounters with murderous birds in as many days.
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A good reason not to write in books
I don’t want Former Me telling me which bits of the book are most noteworthy.
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Anglesey 2023
What we saw on our annual holiday in Anglesey.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 2 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions, and revising ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 1 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions.
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Book Review: ‘One Midsummer’s Day’ by Mark Cocker
Swifts and the story of life on earth.