Top Ten River Books
An interesting page in The Guardian today: Katherine Norbury, who has just published The Fish Ladder, has compiled her top ten books about rivers. I have to agree…
Clare Leighton’s bodgers
I’ve just discovered this lovely, sculptural woodcut of bodgers in the beech woods of Buckinghamshire by Clare Leighton. Weird how you bump into these things: I…
A Place in the Country
I have reviewed WG Sebald’s A Place in the Country for Caught by the River. Newly translated by Jo Catling and published by Hamish Hamilton, this…
A Storm-Cloud for Rivers?
I hear rumours that Owen Patterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – perhaps under pressure from the farming lobby – has proposed…
Review in The Telegraph
Another (mostly) good review and a generous spread in the Telegraph. You can read it online here. Sinclair McKay (author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park…
Review in the FT
Melissa Harrsion, author of the novel Clay, posted a great essay and a very nice review of Silt Road in the weekend Financial Times. You can…
Silt Road is printed
Chatto has sent me two off-the-press copies of Silt Road and it looks fab. They have done an awesome job on the cover and design, the…
Brighton Festival 2013
Caught by the River correspondent John Andrews and myself will be putting on a readings and Q and A event at the Brighton Festival in May. I’ll be…
Austerlitz comes to Ambridge
Almost exactly a year after Radio 3 broadcast five podcasts on the work of W.G. Sebald, personal reflections by critics and writers who knew him (Anthea…
The World Behind and Ahead Nothing But Emptiness
Written for John Andrews for his edition of Antidote: We don’t remember exactly how W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn made it into our house. Vicky thinks she may…
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