
The Reading Life: 2020
2020, what a year. I’m going to go with the old maxim, ‘if you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all,’ and simply share my year’s reading. Four months…
Read More2020, what a year. I’m going to go with the old maxim, ‘if you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all,’ and simply share my year’s reading. Four months…
Read MoreIn the middle of June, I packed books, pinboards, a laptop, wellies, a holdall of tatty clothes, and Dougie the dog into the car, and headed for the Scottish Borders.…
Read MoreIn September I read an essay by John McPhee, “Omission: Choosing what to leave out,” in The New Yorker, and it reminded me how much I admire his work. I promptly made…
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