For those of you who are currently staying close to home in urban areas, I offer some vicarious countryside living in the form of two lovely books: The Secret Life …
Category: Biography & Memoir
It’s hard to imagine how you’d cope if overnight you lost your home and all of your possessions other than what you can carry or store in someone’s garage. It …
I have always loved reading biographies about historical figures. One of the things I find most interesting is when you reach the moment of their death, as it is here …
Now that we’re all housebound, what we need is a book that will whisk us off to someplace else. Fancy travelling to Italy? Donna Leon‘s series of crime novels set …
The toddler is dragging me outside to play, the cat is threatening to attack if I don’t feed him for the twelfth time today, and the other half is signaling …
I want to tell them that the world isn’t evil. That it’s full and complicated and beautiful and good, filled with unknown truths and unbroken hopes, and that it’s waiting …
A shiver runs down my spine whenever a customer says these eight little words. What makes one person laugh can leave another confused, irritated even. My fondest memory is of …
The incomparable Patti Smith celebrates the passing of another decade in her life with The Year of the Monkey. In her seventieth year, this prolific punk-rock poet sets out on …
Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in the Irish Times. He has written numerous …
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