As the nights draw in amid the endless rummaging for the thick socks and scarves, Winter is a time of year that not just embodies the colder months of the…
My childhood impressions of World War 2 were shaped by the comics and films of the day. Boy’s Own type adventures of bravery and fighting heroically against the odds, on…
At the time of the outbreak of World War One, Lewen Weldon was stationed in Egypt where he was employed in surveying the region. Quickly stationed on a converted German…
As a long-term obsessive walker, I should have devoured this book but a recent drop off in my own walking due to health issues and a shortage of opportunities for…
The Language of Trees is a beautifully produced book and is full of riches. The collection has been curated and designed by writer, artist and activist Katie Holten and melds…
The end of the Second World War in the Pacific was an event of unprecedented barbarity with the dropping of two atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In Road To…
In conversation with the author of this book, I once described my early impressions of Cornwall as a kind of ramshackle Eden. My first two visits were in the late…
This marvellous book is subtitled ‘Finding Wild Things With My Kids’ but I wouldn’t let that put you off even if, like me, you have never had any children of…
Of all the poets from the Romantic period, it could be easily argued that Lord Byron would be one of the most recognisable names to a great many people. However,…
With a new focus on Gothic prevailing in new literature I’m often left wondering as to where the genre first started. Albeit it could be argued that Gothic literature owes…