Dabbler Heroes – Nan Shepherd

Toby Ash discovers an extraordinary nature writer... Firstly, thanks to landscape writer and all round literary top of the class Robert Macfarlane for introducing me to the extraordinary prose of Anna (Nan) Shepherd. He talked about her in his books Wild Places and The Old Ways (a Dabbler Book Club choice), ... Read More...

Book Review: City by P.D. Smith

For the first time in history, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - is now living in cities. Elberry reviews 'the ultimate guidebook to our urban centres'... From the sky, England still looks green. On the ground, it's another story, all cancerous conurbations and serial ghettos. Most people ... Read More...

Review Wittgenstein in Cambridge, Letters and Documents 1911-1951 ed. Brian McGuinness

A major new academic work on Wittgenstein reveals the human face of a brilliant but difficult man, finds Elberry... In an age of meretricious academic nonsense, Wittgenstein in Cambridge is a professional, scholarly work. Professor McGuinness has collected and edited nearly 500 pages of letters between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and ... Read More...

Sightlines – Winners!

Announcing the winners of this month’s Dabbler Book Club choice… Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie is our latest Dabbler Book Club choice, announced here. We began our week with a ship's encounter with an iceberg, as does Jamie's book and here's a taster: The next iceberg offers to the ship a ramp as smooth and ... Read More...