Monthly Archives: November 2016
Zen baggage
Modern Love – The Lives of John and Sunday Reed
Clouds
Simply messing around in books
This half of Gert hasn’t felt inspired to write much about anything she’s read lately. But here are two very different recent Australian publications that might interest you:
Word of the Month club: post-truth and the glass cliff
Nan Shepherd on the Scottish £5 note
Gert was delighted to see that Nan Shepherd is on the new Scottish £5 note.
Leonard Cohen 1934-2016
Anne Enright: The Gathering and The Green Road
Irish Hens and stags
Recently I was in Ireland spending a quiet weekend in the medieval town of Carlingford.