A fool on a hill
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Sunday 30 April 2023
A Killing in November, by Simon Mason
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Back to books, with this detective story set in Oxford. I thought to start off with it was going to be relatively gentle, I suppose because...
Monday 24 April 2023
Cawdor Castle
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In the early summer of 2022, we were staying in the Cairngorm National Park. It was our first time in the north-west of Scotland, and we w...
Monday 17 April 2023
The Plant-Hunter's Atlas, and The Newt
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Some of you may recall that I have an interest in the history of plants, and particularly in the extraordinary adventures of the plant hu...
Monday 10 April 2023
Shipley Hall, D H Lawrence, and a sad irony
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When I was a child, we lived on the edge of Ilkeston, formerly a Derbyshire mining town. By then most of the local pits pits had closed do...
Monday 3 April 2023
The Stones of Stanton Drew (NB this is not a book review!)
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I've been meaning for some time to visit Stanton Drew, where I'd heard there are stone circles. I'm interested in prehistory, a...
Thursday 29 September 2022
Dogs of the Deadlands, by Anthony McGowan
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For a review of Anthony McGowan's rivetting new YA novel set in the aftermath of Chernobyl, please follow the link to An Awfully Big ...
Monday 12 September 2022
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
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I can't imagine why, but recently I've felt the urge to escape from the present into a greener, gentler past: and so I decided to re...
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