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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Manchester Literature Festival: In Conversation…Eleanor Catton, Waterstones
In a literary sense, at least, Eleanor Catton is adept at shedding her skin. Each of her three...
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