I'm making a point of reading landscape books at the moment - there are many ways in which writing connects with place, and this is one of them. Author Anthony Nanson is both a novelist and a story teller, so is able to breathe life into the folk tales of Gloucestershire. Many of the stories in th...
I didn't know any of these stories of spooky goings on in Gloucestershire. An an engaging set of tales well told, I shall have to get out there and find some of the locations, Woeful Dane's Bottom is at the top of my list.
Most of the wilderness fiction I’ve read is historical. Last of the Mohicans, Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, assorted American transcendentalists, – books whose authors who had the advantage of writing about places and environments that were largely unknown, unpredictable and clearly dangerous. While p...
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