The Owl Service
The Owl Service Returning to a book you’d enjoyed many years ago but has been unread since can be an unpredictable experience. The second [...]
The Owl Service Returning to a book you’d enjoyed many years ago but has been unread since can be an unpredictable experience. The second [...]
Here and there - Olinda, Victoria When we moved to Australia, the family first lived in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. However, [...]
Ways of Seeing It seems such an insubstantial volume now, and yet it had a huge impact on me when I bought it, an [...]
Tristes Tropiques Studying social anthropology in the 1960s was to confront a subject in transition. Perhaps that is too strong. In most British university [...]
Alice, Everywhere My 1954 Edition of Lewis Carroll’s works covers both Alice books, (Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass), together with [...]
Centuries Of Childhood There was a time, back in the 1960s, when any student wanting to show they were conversant with the latest thinking [...]
Here and There – Maryland, USA To explain why I spent time in Maryland requires something of a detour, both in time and place. [...]
Watership Down Watership Down burst on the world in 1972 . It was like a bomb. Almost no-one knew of Richard Adams and yet [...]
Here and There – Egypt For the average young and ethnocentric Englishman, few places sounded more exotic than Egypt. This is the land of [...]
The Empty Raincoat The Age of Unreason first appeared in bookshops in 1989. The front cover illustration was of a frog with a placard [...]