‘I thought I could make a living as an artist’ Sketching a Year in Lakeland
As a schoolgirl, Liz Wakelin wasn’t allowed to study art. They said she was “too academic” and...
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Beggar Bee Nameless: Stephen K Easterbrook writes about his new book
‘Beggars can’t be choosers.’ Her face was right up close to his. He had never got a good look at...
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Book Review: Sanderson’s Isle by James Clarke
A good book can take you out of yourself, abstract you from the over-familiar and humdrum,...
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Clubland: How The Working Men’s Club Shaped Britain by Pete Brown
The cover doesn’t do it justice. Utilitarian in the most prosaic of ways, it gives little...
Read MoreBooks: bees, rewilding and rediscovering nature
When I picked up The Wild Bee Handbook by Sarah Wyndham Lewis, I half expected it to be like so many ‘handbook’ type publications I had read before: a coffee table book full of pretty fluff pieces with lovely pictures. I...
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