Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
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Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
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Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.
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Book review: ‘The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem’ by Jeremy Noel-Tod
An anthology of poems without line breaks.
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Book review: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ by Simon Armitage
An excellent alliterative translation of a medieval masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘The Shortest History of Italy’ by Ross King
An excellent short history of an excellent country.
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Book review: ‘The Red Tenda of Bologna’ by John Berger
A short memoir-cum-essay on the city of Bologna and an enigmatic uncle.
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Book review: ‘The Gold Machine’ by Iain Sinclair
Tracking the ancestors from Highlands to coffee colony.
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Book review: ‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince
Writer and comedian tours 104 bookshops, buying far too many books as he does so.
