Many of us have dreamt of returning to nature and escaping the humdrum of city living, for Rebecca Schiller and her family this became a...

Throughout my studies in Religion, and writing, the Devil has cropped up several times, unsurprisingly. However, with the general...

This book arrived three days before the swifts returned to the skies above Somerset in early May, and I was immediately captivated by the...

Like many other people over the past 12 months or so many been experiencing Covid exhaustion, trying as much not to read the daily news...

The Heeding One of the privileges of reviewing books is that now and again a book comes along that genuinely speaks to you personally,...

There’s something about immersing yourself in another language and culture that always brings romantic imaginings to the fore. I’m sure...

Climate Change and talk of a Sixth Extinction seem to be ever-present in our newsfeeds these days, “Winter's getting warmer, the ice-caps...

Even as a boy, Jeff Young is in love with a city – Liverpool. The city is his muse, and the inspiration for much of his work as a...

Freemasonry: Initiation by Light by Christopher Earnshaw is the first of four books exploring the origins and mysteries of Freemasonry. ...

In humankind’s history there have been many ages of discovery, but few that surmise the arduousness and strength of human endurance than...

I’m sure many of us have seen the image on television or portrayed on radio and comic books of the atypical ‘mystic’ calling out ‘is...

Psychogeography has become a popular term over the past few decades, promoted by writers, film makers and artists such as Iain Sinclair,...

I think it would be an underestimation to suggest that David Attenborough is one of the leading environmentalists in the country or the...

Set in the late Palaeolithic, writer, musician and filmmaker, Richard Skelton creates an ancient landscape in his new collection of...

Following on from her celebrated collection of poems, Swims, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett returns to the waters once more with a new collection...

Like so many others enduring 2020 I really wasn't sure I wanted to read Adam Roberts' It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really...

Although originally published in 1984 Cut Stones & Crossroads by Ronald Wright simply remains the pinnacle of any travel writing on Peru....

A well-spent rainy afternoon for me is relaxing in my reading chair, large quantities of tea and a good book, maybe a sandwich, which on...

In Fifty Words for Snow, Nancy Campbell continues her work on the “changing landscape of the Arctic” and gifts us not only with the...

I wasn’t aware of Garth E. Rees and the website Unofficial Britain until only recently. In Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through...

Under the Apple Boughs, by Peter Maughan is a year spend in an, unnamed, village somewhere in North Devon with an equally unnamed...

Riverwise Meditations on the Teifi by Jack Smylie Wild is a book I’ve already read twice since its release, and a book I’ll very likely...

From a young age I've been fascinated with ancient cultures around the world, whether it be the Druids, Egyptians, ancient Greeks or...

I’ve been re-immersing myself into more poetry as of late, it’s something that I’ve long tried to avoid as, being a poet and writer, it’s...

Stephen Rutt has written a devotional tribute to two liminal tribes, seabirds and the ornithologists who have sought to unearth some of...

I've been planning on a trip across the United States for a number of years now, ever since first reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road...

Every now and then a book comes along which opens your eyes to a world you never knew existed, to a life and experience that is beyond...

I find it refreshing to read such work as Carrie Magness Radna’s in Hurricanes Never Apologize. Within this short book, a collection of...

In The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain, Andrew Ziminski takes us on a history of building in Britain, beginning with our...

I’ve always had a fascination with the supernatural, having lived in a number of places which can only be called ‘haunted’ and had...

I often wonder what inspires an author to write on a particular topic, what is it that ignited that initial spark which launched the...

“It so happened that most of the people with whom I had anything to do during my stay at Cairo were seized with plague, and all these...

I first happened across Julian Hoffman earlier this year whilst supporting the campaign to stop the ill-advised M4 Black Route around...