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Literary Review review: ‘The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones’, Owen Booth (4th Estate, 2020)

This is a novel that surprised me first by existing and then by being not only funny – and it is very funny – but also strangely, desperately moving.

Short story: The Berg

First published in Unthology 11 (2019).

TLS essay: Little Parishes Of Sky

A square mile of sky is, of course, what you make of it.

New Statesman essay: Nature Writing’s Fascist Roots

Eco-fascism is a modern-day ideology, fuelled by the internet, but its roots are deep – and often forgotten.

Review: ‘Car Park Life’, Gareth E Rees (Influx, 2019)

‘Car Park Life’ really is a memoir of car park exploration. Rees’s mission, outlined in the shadow of Hastings Morrisons, is to challenge the ‘assumed truth’ that car parks are ‘non-places’.

Review: ‘Nightingales In Berlin – Searching For The Perfect Sound’, David Rothenberg (University of Chicago Press, 2019)

David Rothenberg has carved out a somewhat crooked niche as a celebrated musician-cum-birdsong investigator, and for some time has been…

Literary Review review: ‘Homing – On Pigeons, Dwellings, And Why We Return’, Jon Day (John Murray, 2019)

A memoir of pigeon-keeping and middle-class life in flux, Jon Day’s ‘Homing’ is a sort of ‘P Is For Pigeon’.

New book: ‘An Indifference Of Birds’

The story of human history
—from a bird’s eye view.

Geographical review: ‘Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels To The End Of Europe’, Rory MacLean (Bloomsbury, 2019)

In returning, nearly 30 years on, to the territories he last explored in his 1992 Trabant travelogue Stalin’s Nose, Rory…

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