Don’t Panic by George Lewis
valuable and open-hearted – if gently laddish – book on parenting for non-birthing people
Tag: England
This Wounded Island by J.W. Böhm
iiiiit’s good stuff but it’s a pretend book
Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans by Margret Grebowicz
we have lived with dogs for longer than we’ve lived with agriculture; we are arguably not people without them…
Piranesi by Susana Clarke
strange weird wonderful yes
The Hill of Devi by E.M. Forster
reading another of Forster’s late, weak (maybe pointless?) books
The Crystal World by JG Ballard
my dog’s toy duck is named “jg mallard” but i dont mention that in the post
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
an interesting Sudanese novel from the sixties
video: a weekend trip to North West Wales
a weekend trip to wales in the rain
Call For The Dead by John Le Carré
are you a #bondboy or #smileyman?
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
how would people act if they already knew how they were gonna act???
video: drum.machine.with.a.panorama.of.derwentwater
the view is nice and so is the dog
Video: drum.machine.in.the.lakes
little play with a drum machine with a view
Tripticks by Ann Quin
am i too stoopid to enjoy ann quin? maybe maybe not?
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
strict taboos put us all in danger: smh on fred + rose west
video: drum.machine.by.the.sea
little beat, little poem on the south east coast
OUT by Christine Brooke-Rose
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
The Angry Brigade by James Graham
eww i read some centrist art by mistake
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
read a great book about a very bad person and a very bad place
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark (Influx Press, 2020)
a week off work begins with a great contemporary novel
Showa: A History of Japan 1926 – 1939 by Shigeru Mizuki
interesting entry-level text about modern Japanese history
Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
the lockdown continues and nothing changes
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
very early protest against colonialism
New Model Island by Alex Niven
england is dead and it owes u no living
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
an important, wonderful, book
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
read good book, do bad exercise
Maurice by E. M. Forster
a snobbish delight
Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
The Moor by Sam Haysom
I am bamboozled by supernatural horror
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
essential reading, especially if you’re a racist
The Commons by Stephen Collis
why are poets so obsessed with outside?
#TotNTV: England
ingerlaaaand, ingerlaaaaand, ingerland ingerland naaa naaa
The Human Condition Is A Terminal Illness by Matthew J. Hall
Poems about sad, lonely, englishmen
Suicide Notes by Lewis Parker
Another book of poetry from up-and-coming indie publisher Morbid Books.
Jo the Witch Vet by Joanne Sadler
OK, so maybe I’m not the target demographic, but Jo the Witch Vet by Joanne Sadler is one of theContinue Reading
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
I often state that me taking more than a week to read anything, irrelevant of size, is a sign thatContinue Reading
Chess by Stefan Zweig
Chess is an excellent little novella written by Stefan Zweig in the early 1940s. An Austrian who’d run from theContinue Reading
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
I really really liked this. That’s what I’m going to open with, because everything of any wit or interest IContinue Reading
State of the Nation
Nothing interests me on The Mall. And only the pelicans do in St James’s Park. But I like walking, passing,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 