People
Reviews of biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, memoirs, and other ‘life writing’.
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Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.
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Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
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Book review: ‘Something of His Art’ by Horatio Clare
Walking to Lübeck with J.S. Bach.
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Book review: ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ by Francis Kilvert
The diary of a Victorian country curate.
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Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.
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Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
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Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
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Book review: ‘The Faraway Nearby’ by Rebecca Solnit
A curiously compelling mix of memoir and anti-memoir.
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Book review: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
Definitely not a writing guide.
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Book review: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives together.
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Book review: ‘Nature Cure’ by Richard Mabey
Nature writer recovers from depression by reconnecting with nature.
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Book review: ‘Turning the Boat for Home’ by Richard Mabey
A life writing about nature.