A Fragile Thing – Camille Ralphs’ After You Were, I Am
After a chance remark about George Herbert, the librarian pulled a small volume from the shelf: leatherbound and plain, scruffy …
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Penny Boxall’s The Curiosities
I’ve been never one for zoos, but daily life offers the same anxieties. Visiting my mother in her gated compound, …
Fiona Moore’s Okapi
Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks is on my mind – again. On first reading, I paid it scant attention, but it’s nagged …
The Vortex: Hugo Williams’s ‘Fast Music’
Although listening to music remains one of life’s pleasures it does, over time, become complex territory to navigate. It conjures …
Woven Song—Liane Strauss’s ‘The Flaws in the Story’
In a world of spoilers, ignorance can be a superpower. And so it was when I visited Sir John Soane’s …
Poor Rude Lines 