Category: Book Musings (Page 30 of 32)

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I had the privilege of interviewing the nature and sports write, Simon Barnes for his new book The Meaning of Birds.

The new issue of newbooks magazine is out , and I have two articles in it. It is well worth reading for those of you who haven’t come across it before.

Have had a bookish afternoon meeting James Lockhart and Robert Penn at the Dorchester Literary Festival and now hearing Dan Richard talk about his book Climbing Days in Southampton

I have finally taken the plunge and signed up for Twitter. You can find me here:

@halfmanhalfb00k

I am slowly but surely building up my collection of natural history books. These are ones that I have read in the past but have never owned. Over the weekend bought:

Waterlog by Roger Deakin
Wildwood by Roger Deakin
The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (courtesy of Nudge)

If you have’t read (or heard) of them, they are all worth reading

As well as getting a book to review I also got to ask Francis Pryor some questions about his latest book:

Roger Deakin died ten years ago yesterday. He wrote the amazing Waterlog, a lyrical book about swimming in any pool of water that he could fit into. More than that he inspired the author Robert Macfarlane and countless others to explore, discover and most importantly write about what they see.