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Shalimar: A Story of Place & Migration by Davina Quinlivan
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Shalimar: A Story of Place & Migration by Davina Quinlivan

I wasn't sure what to expect with Shalimar: A Story of Place & Migration, the wonderful debut novel from author Davina Quinlivan. I've read a fair bit on areas such as…
Posted by By Tom Stanger March 16, 2022Posted inBooksNo Comments
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century
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The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century

The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century delivers what it promises and more. Like so many other recent publications it has its genesis in the Covid crisis. At…
Posted by By Ian Tattum March 5, 2022Posted inBooksNo Comments
Riding Jane Crow by Miriam Thaggert
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Riding Jane Crow by Miriam Thaggert

Everyone loves a good train story. Not only do they merge the limitless feeling of traveling by locomotive with the very real anxieties that can pervade a closed cabin, but they…
Posted by By Lake Markham March 1, 2022Posted inBooksNo Comments
Finding The Mother Tree  by Suzanne Simard
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Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

The Yucatan jungle is on either side of the road as I finish reading Finding the Mother Tree. Throughout my four-hour journey through the Mexican south, I’ve been idly looking…
Posted by By Deborah Gray February 18, 2022Posted inBooksNo Comments
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction by John Burnside
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Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction by John Burnside

This book is not an easy read.  This is probably as it should be, given the subject material – the death of the individuals, species and the planet, and the…
Posted by By Lisa Tulfer February 8, 2022Posted inBooksNo Comments
The Ghost in the Garden by Jude Piesse
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The Ghost in the Garden by Jude Piesse

In her wonderful book, The Ghost in the Garden: in Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden, author Jude Piesse observes that gardens have the unique distinction of being created by people as…
Posted by By Lake Markham January 29, 2022Posted inBooksNo Comments
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
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I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

Anita Sethi begins her book I Belong Here with an account of racial abuse. Travelling on the TransPennine Express train, a man insults her, saying, amongst other things too vile…
Posted by By Deborah Gray December 15, 2021Posted inBooksNo Comments
The Turkish Embassy Letters
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The Turkish Embassy Letters

To say these are a collection of the best letter writing of the eighteenth century really would be understating the importance and brilliance of The Turkish Embassy Letters.  A collection…
Posted by By Tom Stanger December 10, 2021Posted inBooksNo Comments
The Little Grey Men. The adventures of gnomes as a prophetic eco-manifesto.
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The Little Grey Men. The adventures of gnomes as a prophetic eco-manifesto.

Denys Watkins- Pitchford, alias BB, writer and artist, spent his latter years living in a roundhouse, in Sudborough, in Northamptonshire, the county where he grew up and spent most of…
Posted by By Ian Tattum December 7, 2021Posted inWordsNo Comments
Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
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Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

In Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation, he remarks that the permanence of a mountain seems to structure our understanding of the natural world, thereby conditioning the eye…
Posted by By Lake Markham November 11, 2021Posted inBooksNo Comments

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