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Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

There is a lot of pressure on the first line of a book. I imagine most authors want to be as quotable as Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley or It was the day my grandmother exploded. You may neve

Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside