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"A fascination with archaeology runs through the Scottish poet’s collection of essays..."

"Darley’s personal exploration is the ideal antidote to platitudes and prejudice; it is the celebration that the Essex diaspora has been waiting for..."

"This is an exquisite, deeply affecting book, one in which an experience of dislocation and loss is conveyed in prose that flows so clearly and gracefully it finds continuities and connections all the time...."

"When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it..."

"[An] entertaining book [that] is comprehensively balanced, fair, lucid and subtly witty..."

"Palin’s writing lacks the vigour of his presenting; it isn’t as evocative or inspiring as it should be..."

"I rather suspect that beneath the dotty camouflage, Rees is a writer of deep seriousness and political commitment with an urgent message..."

"Modernity and tradition clash in the surprisingly diverse post-Soviet states of this fascinating travelogue..."

"some glorious passages of natural history..."

"commendably honest in [its] self-appraisal..."

"his story reads like a fast-paced thriller..."

"A new account relates the rise of regional music scenes to the UK’s loss of heavy industry..."

"it has a definite design – like that of a garden..."

"her drily witty sentences snap like sushki, the crunchy sugared bread rings Russians eat with their coffee..."

"Could a gentler, mutually beneficial co‑operation between species help shape a green future?..."

"A diligent account of the country’s recent travails — and its slow, painful route out of them..."

"Epic Continent brings out the many ironies of literary and political history..."

"both fascinating and troubling..."

"brings the reader closer to some realities of land and sea..."

"the former mayor’s account offers no deep thinking about his impact on today’s London..."

"a personal, enjoyable celebration of the Thames from source to sea..."

"Faced with the loss of beloved landscapes, some passionate individuals have taken action at enormous cost and personal risk...."

"a valuable contribution to musicology and an informative tribute to a musical culture...."