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So Goode it’s bad

Friday, December 10, 2021

Forever and a Day: a James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz (Random House Audiobooks, read by Matthew Goode, 7hrs 36mins) . Around the final Daniel Craig installment, there’s been inevitable talk of who should be the next James Bond. Well, I’ll tell you who it shouldn’t be, and that’s Matthew Goode. Three years ago, Anthony […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Anthony Horowitz, audiobooks, Britain, cars, CIA, Corsica, fiction, food, French, German, Ian Fleming, James Bond, languages, Matthew Goode, McDonald's, MI6, Radio 3, Random House, Russians, Scots, wine, women, WW2 | Comments (0)

‘Bad in life, good in the book’

Thursday, September 12, 2019

A Q&A with writer and artist Dan Richards. — For Geographical

Filed in interview, Journalism | Also tagged Alice Oswald, Amazon, art, Bath, bears, Bob Dylan, climbing, Dan Richards, David Bowie, Denis Johnson, Geographical, Horatio Clare, Iceland, JA Baker, Jan Morris, Joan Didion, Max Porter, mountains, North Korea, Outward Bound, post, Rebecca Solnit, Richard Brautigan, Royal Geographical Society, Spetses, Svalbard, sæluhús, Ted Hughes, Tim Severin, TS Eliot, writing | Comments (0)

Out and aboutpost

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Outpost: a journey to the wild ends of the earth by Dan Richards Canongate £16.99 (hardback) . Imagination fired by a picture of his father outside an Arctic shed, artist and writer Dan Richards sets off in search of places that ‘allow mankind a foothold in otherwise inhospitable terrain’. Icelandic ‘houses of joy’ (not what […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged architecture, art, Björk, boats, Canongate, Dan Richards, fire-fighting, Geoff Dyer, Geographical, humour, Iceland, Jack Kerouac, lighthouses, Mars, non-fiction, Ranulph Fiennes, Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin, science, Svalbard, Switzerland, the Arctic, travel, Turner Prize, walking, Wendell Berry, Werner Herzog | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, April 30, 2018

. Norway has five leper hospitals, with about 600 patients. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 24 1907 . There is an injury called ‘tennis elbow of the heel’. The rocks in the Sultanate of Oman are special. Hitler only started all the Nazi bollocks because he was such a godawful painter. There is no necessary connection between […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, America, birds, boxing, codicology, crime, death, dogs, Edwin RIst, finance, Francis Urquhart, geology, health, history, leprosy, London International Palaeography Summer School, manuscripts, mountaineering, Natural History Museum, Nazism, Nelson Evening Mail, Oman, painting, palaeography, phones, Poetry, poets, policing, pudding, Samaritans, Stephen Merchant, tennis, the Bible, the Scots Guards, Tibetan, Tring | Comments (0)

Fair tradesmen

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Review of a Norwegian book on loft conversions. (Standard.) — For The Spectator

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged carpentry, employment, MacLehose Press, non-fiction, Norwegian, Ole Thorstensen, Seán Kinsella, Spectator, translation | Comments (0)

Playing my bit-part in Apocalypse Now

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Review of The Indian Core at Barefoot.

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Apocalypse Now, Barefoot, Indian Core, jazz, Kula Shaker, Sunday Times (SL) | Comments (0)