The moors are a tinderbox, parched and crisped by weeks of dry summer heat.
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New Statesman review: ‘Signal Failure’, Tom Jeffreys (Influx Press, 2017)
Railways, like Romans, prefer to take the direct route. Tom Jeffreys, trekking on foot from London to Birmingham along the putative course of the HS2 high-speed line, is more of a rambler.
TLS commentary: Plashy Fens – The Limitations Of Nature Writing
Gilbert White’s Natural History Of Selborne (1788) has been regarded since its publication as a landmark text in British nature-writing. Does it still cast a shadow? Do the nature writers of the past decade owe White a debt?
The Guardian Country Diary: Ears strained for a mad Highland grouse
To me, at least, the Highlands dishes up its treats in small portions.
TLS commentary: How British Is It?
“For centuries we have prized the same prejudices”, the vicar of an isolated Warwickshire village told H. V. Morton in 1926, “and we have grown up as naturally as my currant bushes out there. We were, you see, locked up here together with our fields and our imaginations.”
PUSH Hockey feature: A Brief History Of Goalies
A goalie’s decisions are based on a welter of variables: what’s the surface like, who’s the attacker, where are my defenders and – not least – is this going to hurt?
Richard Smyth 