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March 25, 2021

Notes From Deep Time: A journey through our past and future worlds by Helen Gordon

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Deep time has been a persistent theme in British nonfiction over the last couple of years, showing up in books…

February 16, 2021

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Paperback review by Rebecca Foster I almost passed on the chance to read this because I’d gotten the impression that it was nothing more…

December 17, 2020

The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison & The Consolation of Nature by Michael McCarthy, Jeremy Mynott & Peter Marren

By Rebecca Foster The Stubborn Light of Things collects five and a half years’ worth of Melissa Harrison’s monthly Nature Notebook columns for The…

December 15, 2020

Artifact by Arlene Heyman

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Lottie (or Dr Charlotte Kristin Hart Levinson, to give her full name), the protagonist of 77-year-old New York City psychiatrist…

December 10, 2020

Dearly by Margaret Atwood & other poetry highlights of 2020

By Rebecca Foster Dearly by Margaret Atwood In her career of more than five decades, Margaret Atwood has produced work in an astounding range…

August 4, 2020

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Natasha Trethewey is an English professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate familiar to me from Native Guard (2006), her third…

July 28, 2020

Three Wainwright Prize Nominees: Books by Patrick Barkham, Patrick Laurie & Jini Reddy

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster The Wainwright Prize longlists for writing on UK nature and global conservation themes were announced in early June and will…

DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST
July 2, 2020

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster When the Wainwright Prize longlists (for writing on UK nature and global conservation themes) were announced in early June, Dara…

Greenery Tim Dee
June 2, 2020

Greenery: Journeys in Springtime by Tim Dee (2020)

Review by Rebecca Foster From the Cape of Good Hope to the Arctic Circle, Dee tracks the spring as it travels north. From first…

May 14, 2020

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Evie Wyld’s third novel has the most stunning opening I’ve encountered in a long time. In under a page and…

April 16, 2020

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Back in early March, just before literary events started being cancelled due to coronavirus, I had the good fortune to…

snow dog foot claudio morandini
February 20, 2020

Snow, Dog, Foot by Claudio Morandini

Translated by J. Ockenden Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Who could resist the title of this Italian bestseller? A black comedy about a hermit in…

August 13, 2019

Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places by Julian Hoffman

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster More so than ever, I’m convinced that the purpose of literature is to educate us about the most pressing issues…

City of girls elizabeth gilbert
July 16, 2019

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster It’s been six years since Elizabeth Gilbert’s last work of fiction, The Signature of All Things, (reviewed here), a warm,…

Doggerland ben smith
May 28, 2019

Doggerland by Ben Smith

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster There’s no sign of a decline in the popularity of dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction. If anything, it’s becoming even more…

Way home mark boyle
May 21, 2019

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster It’s common practice nowadays, when publicizing a book review published in an online venue, to tag the author on social…

Wellcome Book Prize shortlists
April 4, 2019

A Spotlight on the Wellcome Book Prize

By Rebecca Foster Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, a global…

March 26, 2019

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Looking out from my inconsequential life, I’m often envious of people who save lives on a regular basis – doctors,…

Nine Pints: A Journey through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George
November 27, 2018

Nine Pints: A Journey through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Rose George is the author of three previous wide-ranging nonfiction books, about refugees, human waste and foreign shipping. In Nine…

Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place by Benjamin Myers
November 20, 2018

Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place by Benjamin Myers

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Benjamin Myers has been having a bit of a moment. In 2017 Bluemoose Books published his fifth novel, The Gallows…

Mrs Gaskell and Me nell stevens
September 20, 2018

Mrs Gaskell & Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart By Nell Stevens

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster It started with a misreading of some nineteenth-century handwriting. In 2013 Nell Stevens began a PhD at King’s College, London….

Immeasurable world atkins
September 11, 2018

The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster When I saw him introduce The Immeasurable World as part of the Faber Spring Party, William Atkins characterised it as…

All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J Church
April 26, 2018

All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J Church

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Elizabeth J. Church’s debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love, was about an 87-year-old amateur ornithologist whose husband was one…

February 22, 2018

From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster If you’ve read thirtysomething California funeral director Caitlin Doughty’s previous book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, you’ll remember her account…

December 7, 2017

Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Fame Is the Spur (originally published in 1940) is the second out-of-print Howard Spring novel reissued by Head of Zeus’s…

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