Are you someone who enjoyed reading Melissa Harrison’s “All Among the Barley,” “At Hawthorne Time,” or “Clay?”
Perhaps you’re a regular reader of her “Nature Notebook” column in The Times.
Faber To Publish Melissa Harrison’s Next Book
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Walking in the Light
Melissa Harrison has begun a podcast – and it is absolutely brilliant.
Recording her walks through the Suffolk countryside where she makes her home, “The Stubborn Light of Things” offers listeners an exquisitely gentle, relaxing, running – well, walking, perhaps even ambling, actually – commentary on the nature she observes around her on her journeys, as well as the sounds of the English countryside that are more than enough to make a Anglophile pastoralist weep tears of joy.
Shadows of the Present
Of all the problems facing the United States that I have, as an American, over the course of my life seen to be the most trouble-inspiring, are a profound misunderstanding of history and an over-abundance of nostalgia for the imagined past that this misunderstanding creates. An insufficient, and commonly over-simplified, initial education in our own […]
All Among the Barley
This just in! Melissa Harrison’s new novel “All Among the Barley” will be published this autumn by Bloomsbury.
I know, I know; I don’t review much fiction here in The Well-read Naturalist – primarily because I haven’t been all that impressed by most of the contemporary fiction I’ve read, and because few contemporary authors I’ve found seem to have any genuine understanding of the natural world, much less incorporate it into their work.