"the distinctive dry humour familiar to his television audiences finds plenty of opportunities to emerge"
— Times Literary Supplement
"'This truly is a marvellous book.'"
— The Scotsman
"A fascination with archaeology runs through the Scottish poet’s collection of essays"
— Irish Times
"a book whose impact is accretive and, eventually, astonishing"
— The Observer
"It is vast in both scope and size"
— The Spectator
"provides a powerful restorative in a time of environmental crisis"
— The Sunday Times
"interesting, sharp, swift"
— Times Literary Supplement
"Karl Whitney has penned an extremely important addition to modern music writing"
— Irish Times
"a fluid series of meditations on big questions of life, on love, faith, time and on the nature and purpose of art"
— The Spectator
"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."
— Evening Standard