Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry
Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry with reviews of 3 novels and links to half-a-dozen more. Also more train references than anyone really needs.
Book Review
This book review page collects all the blog posts I have categorised as book reviews.
Burning Angels by Bear Grylls – a review
The last, long weekend in April I spent quite a lot of my reading time in the company of Bear Grylls and his adventure novel Burning Angels. Oh dear.
White Trash by Nancy Isenberg – a book review
A review of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg which I read with great interest earlier in the month.
From Putin to Martin in 13 stages – a reading quarter
My quarterly reading round-up – all the books I’ve read in the first quarter of 2017 from Putin via Patti Smith and Jonas Hassan Khemiri to George RR Martin.
All the books of 2016 – Part 2
All the books I read in 2016 as I kept my New Year resolution. This article is Part 2 of 2. The second half of the year – but more books than in Part 1. I think I was getting into the swing of things. (Also re-reading which usually makes for a quicker read.)
All the books of 2016 (part 1)
All the books I read in 2016 as I kept my New Year resolution. This article is part 1 of 2 because I managed to read more than the 50 books that was my target, and I’ve got something to say something about each of them.
New York Stories
New York Stories, the people who tell them.and the photographer who reports. A review of a photo-book that recently seduced me in a bookshop.
On Reading and the Art of Giving Up – a reading diary entry
In this instalment of my Reading Diary: how to begin a book, how to give it a chance, why giving up is an option – and an analysis of one book I gave up on.
Paddy’s journey: Gifts, woods and broken roads
Gifts, woods and broken roads – a review of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy of books about walking across Europe in 1933, and the allure of his story.
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands – a review
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty islands I have not visited and never will by Judith Schalansky – a review and an appreciation of a fascinating book.