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It’s the End of the World
Like so many others enduring 2020 I really wasn't sure I wanted to read Adam Roberts' It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? but…
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The Secret Life of Fungi
A well-spent rainy afternoon for me is relaxing in my reading chair, large quantities of tea and a good book, maybe a sandwich, which on this occasion was a cheese…
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Cut Stones & Crossroads
Although originally published in 1984 Cut Stones & Crossroads by Ronald Wright simply remains the pinnacle of any travel writing on Peru. Weaving the country’s rich and diverse culture and…
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Fifty Words For Snow
In Fifty Words for Snow, Nancy Campbell continues her work on the “changing landscape of the Arctic” and gifts us not only with the perfect Christmas present but a book…
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Unofficial Britain
I wasn’t aware of Garth E. Rees and the website Unofficial Britain until only recently. In Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Forgotten Places, Rees explores the unknown narrative of our modern-day…
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Under the Apple Boughs
Under the Apple Boughs, by Peter Maughan is a year spent in an unnamed, village somewhere in North Devon with an equally unnamed narrator, but these things don’t matter, the…
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The Seafarers
Stephen Rutt has written a devotional tribute to two liminal tribes, seabirds and the ornithologists who have sought to unearth some of their secrets. In this illuminating book, you will…
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The Journey
Every now and then a book comes along which opens your eyes to a world you never knew existed, to life and experience that is beyond your own comprehension and…
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Sleeping Around in America
I've been planning on a trip across the United States for a number of years now, ever since first reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road almost 30 years ago. From…
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Hurricanes Never Apologize
I find it refreshing to read such work as Carrie Magness Radna’s in Hurricanes Never Apologize. Within this short book, a collection of thirty-one poems there’s beauty in its simplicity.…