"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." Alasdair Gray
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." Alasdair Gray
A wonderfully, garrulous account of language and its development, but also a warning on where our language could go if we aren’t careful. Love of words, sounds and the full gamut of the English language is sung out loud here, and that song is a rallying cry for those who also love the language as …
I’ve always been fascinated by finding things on the shoreline whether they be old things discarded by humans, natural objects shaped by the sea, or evidence of past life in the form of fossils. When the opportunity came along to get a copy of Mudlarking I jumped at it. I’ve heard the name a lot …
Another great addition to the short history type books that are being developed on a lot of different subjects but especially so on women who’ve been hidden from history. As the name states this book is about black women in history, mainly from the 18th century up until recent times, a little biography about the …
It’s been quite a while since I read this and I remember it being a book that helped me navigate the social phenomenon of the Internet and how it has developed. Mainly humorous, definitely tongue-in-cheek, this book still makes points that are worth exploring today even though it is almost 20 years old. Developing the …
I absolutely love books about nature, especially about trees, and when the opportunity arose that I could get a review copy of this book I jumped at it. Last year I had read ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ and this is a similar concept, though only looking at trees that share our urban environment. …
The Adversary is an interpretation of the name Satan, and this is where the writer gets the title of the book from, as the acts and behaviour of Jean-Claude Romand could be interpreted as evil. This is a hard read, but compelling, in the way that watching a car crash is compelling. How Jean-Claude Romand …
It was the cover of this book that drew me to it as all I wanted to do was spend some time at the side of the water. Split into 23 accessible chapters, each focusing on a different change you can make to feel more within the wild that is always around us but that …
After recently reading The Short Story of Film by Ian Haydn Smith this popped up for request on Netgalley so I jumped at the chance to read it. Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know continues with the short format biographical form and continues it well. Here we read about fifty novelists who’ve …