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Your Wild and Precious Life by Liz Jensen – Review
By Barney Bardsley Raphael Coleman was a young environmental activist – just 25 years old – when he collapsed suddenly ... -
The Picnic by Matthew Longo – Review
By Barney Bardsley For those old enough to remember it, the fall of the Berlin Wall must count as one ... -
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk by Matthieu Ricard – Review
By Barney Bardsley The life journey of Matthieu Ricard, explored here in his lengthy autobiography, is not that of a ... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic by Seamus O’Mahoney – Review
By Barney Bardsley This account of the birth of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century is a rip-roaring page turner ... -
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld – Review
By Barney Bardsley Curtis Sittenfeld is a clever and appealing writer, who achieved well-deserved acclaim for her fictionalised account of ... -
Why We Garden by Claire Masset – Review
By Barney Bardsley This well-researched and peaceful book introduces us not just to the many benefits that gardening can bring ... -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann – Review
By Barney Bardsley This beautiful, enigmatic little book was first published in German in 1963. It has taken 60 years ... -
Medusa by Jessie Burton – Review
By Barney Bardsley In Caravaggio’s stark portrait of Medusa, painted in 1597, she is captured at the moment of her ... -
The Cure for Sleep by Tanya Shadrick – Review
By Barney Bardsley In this strange and feverish memoir – reading sometimes like a fairy tale, sometimes a painful confessional ... -
Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps by Michael Stewart – Review
By Barney Bardsley This is the story of an author’s obsession. It is an obsession that many people share with ... -
Recovery: the Lost Art of Convalescence by Dr Gavin Francis – Review
By Barney Bardsley Never has the publication of a book been more timely and welcome than this short but sagacious ... -
Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing – Review
By Barney Bardsley This is a book about the body: our first and most important home, and the site of ...