Reviews
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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: ‘Into the Tangled Bank’ by Lev Parikian
In which our author ventures outdoors to consider the British in nature.
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Book review: ‘Across the Land and the Water’ by W.G. Sebald
Selected poems, 1964–2001.
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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: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee
A celebration of gulls.
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Book review: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
Definitely not a writing guide.
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Book review: ‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee
Journeys in Springtime.
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Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris
A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.
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Book review: ‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall
A brilliant collection of mostly humorous essays from the late American poet.