People
Reviews of biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, memoirs, and other ‘life writing’.
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Book review: ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie
A second volume of superb ‘nature writing’.
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Book review: ‘Findings’ by Kathleen Jamie
Nature writing from the other side of the fence.
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Book review: ‘Round About Town’ by Kevin Boniface
Diary of a postman.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.
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Book review: ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ by Jan Morris
A thought diary.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
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Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
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Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
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Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
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Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend
The Pattern of Friendship.