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To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron – review
Sara Wheeler applauds Colin Thubron's elegiac pilgrimage to Tibet"Where are you?" asks Colin Thubron in his 10th travel book, as he gulps thin Tibetan air. In the other nine volumes, the inner journey...
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Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review
Sara Wheeler enjoys a 500km paddle down the lazy riverOvid wrote lovingly of the loose straying of "soft Meander's wanton current", and in this beguiling book Jeremy Seal reveals himself equally in...
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Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed – review
Cheryl Strayed hiked 1,100 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail in a bid to escape her demons. Her memoir is a fascinating readIn this hugely entertaining book, Cheryl Strayed takes the redemptive...
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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review
Emma Brockes's memoir is a daughter's voyage of discovery and hymn to her mother's childhood hellHere we have a memoir, detective story and love letter revolving around a violent alcoholic and...
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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review
This gripping account of a daughter coping with her mother's Alzheimer's showcases the talents of an American writer worthy of wider recognitionThis is an account of a descent into Alzheimer's,...
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To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron – review
Sara Wheeler applauds Colin Thubron's elegiac pilgrimage to Tibet"Where are you?" asks Colin Thubron in his 10th travel book, as he gulps thin Tibetan air. In the other nine volumes, the inner journey...
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Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review
Sara Wheeler enjoys a 500km paddle down the lazy riverOvid wrote lovingly of the loose straying of "soft Meander's wanton current", and in this beguiling book Jeremy Seal reveals himself equally in...
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Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed – review
Cheryl Strayed hiked 1,100 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail in a bid to escape her demons. Her memoir is a fascinating readIn this hugely entertaining book, Cheryl Strayed takes the redemptive...
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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review
Emma Brockes's memoir is a daughter's voyage of discovery and hymn to her mother's childhood hellHere we have a memoir, detective story and love letter revolving around a violent alcoholic and...
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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review
This gripping account of a daughter coping with her mother's Alzheimer's showcases the talents of an American writer worthy of wider recognitionThis is an account of a descent into Alzheimer's,...
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The Liberty Tree by Suzanne Harrington – review
Suzanne Harrington's breezy account of her three decade-long battle with alcohol comes good in the endSuzanne Harrington was an addict for 34 years. When the drugs failed, alcohol took up the baton....
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Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare – review
Sailors emerge as the heroes in a lyrical account of the modern container shipping industryInstalled as writer-in-residence for the Danish container-shipping giant Maersk, Horatio Clare made two...
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Son of a Gun by Justin St Germain – review
Justin St Germain's account of his mother's murder and how he dealt with it is frank and sad without ever veering into self-pityIn September 2001, in the shimmering Arizona desert, a man shot his wife...
View ArticleHow to Ruin a Queen review 'narrative history at its best'
A jewel scam involving Marie Antoinette that scandalised Europe is brought vividly to life in this rousing ancien regime caperThis melodramatic sliver of European history stars a doltish king, a...
View ArticleReading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer review – what...
Ann Morgan reads her way across the globe in this entertaining blog-turned-bookThis book records the author’s adventures over the course of a year in which she read a book from every country in the...
View ArticleThe Ancient Art of Growing Old by Tom Payne review – how to improve with age
This reflection on ageing is also an intelligent and witty self-help bookWriters of the classical world had a good deal to say about old age, especially in the arena of carnal desire. Some, such as...
View ArticleWeatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies review – it’s not always...
Former Guardian first book award winner Alexandra Harris widens her scope with this study of the relationship of artists and writers with sun, wind and snow“My subject is not the weather itself,”...
View ArticleThe Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel – review
The environmentalist’s account of the year he spent restoring wildlife to a field is enlightening and stylish“Lying down in the field at night,” writes John Lewis-Stempel, “ear close to the ground, I...
View ArticleAriel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris by Derek Johns; Dashing for the Post:...
The lives of two colourful veterans of British travel writing are uncovered with contrasting successJan Morris, now in her 91st year, has produced a body of work with astonishing range: history,...
View ArticleGillon Aitken obituary
Leading British literary agent whose clients included Germaine Greer, Helen Fielding, AN Wilson and Salman RushdieGillon Aitken, who has died aged 78, founded the literary agency Gillon Aitken in 1976...
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