Reviews
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Book review: ‘Women on Nature’ by Katherine Norbury (ed.)
100+ voices on place, landscape and the natural world.
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Book review: ‘Thames Mudlarking’ by Jason Sandy & Nick Stevens
Searching for London’s Lost Treasures.
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Book review: ‘Steal Like an Artist’ by Austin Kleon
10 things nobody told you about being creative.
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Book review: ‘How to Read a Book’ by Adler & van Doren
The classic guide to intelligent reading.
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Book review: ‘Illuminations’ by Walter Benjamin
An eclectic collection of high-brow essays.
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Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon
Essays on single sentences.
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Book review: ‘Essayism’ by Brian Dillon
A celebration of the essay.
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Book review: ‘The Circling Sky’ by Neil Ansell
On nature and belonging in an ancient forest.
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Book review: ‘How to Take Smart Notes’ by Sönke Ahrens
One simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking: for students, academics and nonfiction book writers.
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Book review: ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King
Cult author Stephen King explains how he goes about writing his punchy prose. Not being a great fan of fiction, I’ve only ever read one of King’s novels—Misery, which was excellent—but the advice he imparts applies mostly as well to any genre of writing. A large proportion of this book is memoir, rather than writing…
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‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf
Streams of consciousness in the Hebrides.
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Book review: ‘Congenial Spirits’ by Virginia Woolf
The selected letters of Virginia Woolf.