The Solitary Walker

I'd heard of  Don Miguel Ruiz for a while, but hadn't got round to reading any of his books. I'd known about his four agreem...

I've just finished Artemis Cooper 's recent, very readable biography of the irrepressible author and adventurer  Patrick Leigh Fe...

Beating the bounds. I'm not much of a one for New Year resolutions, but I do have five modest daily goals: (1) To read a littl...

With apologies to Marcel Proust I only have to dunk a Jammie Dodger In PG Tips and I’m transported back To Lincolnshire and the old rail...

In a comment on my Proustian (aha, another adjectivized author!) post , John Hee has reminded me of the hilarious Monty Python sketch - th...

How Proust Can Change Your Life is the title of a book by Alain de Botton . I would very much like to read it. It's an accessible stud...

Another poem about autumn which I like very much has come to mind. It's called Song at the Beginning of Autumn and is by Elizabeth Jenni...

Of course there's really no such thing as the end of one season and the beginning of the next. The seasons, like the stages of our lives...