OK, so I’ve been a bit slack in updating this these past few weeks, but I’ve done a number of reviews recently, as follows:
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays (previously published in the London Review of Books) includes a brilliant account of his abortive attempt to ghostwrite a memoir by Julian Assange. Here’s my Sunday Times review
I’ve spent a lot of time on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, but have never found a dinosaur skeleton, as Mary Anning did in 1811. Brenda Maddox’s book is about the Victorian geologists like Anning who changed the way we looked at the world – proving for example that it is much older than anyone thought and thus challenging Christian orthodoxy. My Sunday Times review is here
And finally, I very much enjoyed Amanda Craig’s latest novel and reviewed it here for the Literary Review.
Ian Critchley 