Today is the fourth anniversary of the premature death of my former academic colleague John Parkinson. I still miss him, as I am sure do many others. He once kindly gave me a copy of J.B. Priestley’s English Journey (now out of print, apparently), which I cannot now read without a multiple sense of loss — [...]
Archive for February 19th, 2008
CSR, and in memoriam
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Books...- Elephant and Other Stories by Raymond Carver
- Oban to Campbeltown, Sustrans Cycle Route Map: Sustrans' Official Route Map and Information on the 120 Miles of…
- Granta 103 by Jason Cowley
- The Untouchable by John Banville
- My Oedipus Complex: And Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Frank O'Connor
- The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal
- Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 by E.J. Hobsbawm
- Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture, 1976-1990 by Terry Friedman
- Amongst Women by John McGahern
- The Beginning of Spring (Flamingo) by Penelope Fitzgerald
