Monthly Archives: July 2024

What I Read In July

Richard Fortey: Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind Richard Fortey is best known as an author (Life: An Unauthorised Biography) and palaeontologist (Trilobite!) but as his sparkling memoir A Curious Boy revealed, he’s been a skilled amateur mycologist since boyhood. … Continue reading

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice

I’ve long wanted to patronise this shop, but I’d have to disguise myself as a helpful Labrador.

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What I Read In June

Baoshu The Redemption of Time I generally don’t have time for fan fiction, but there’s fan fiction and fan fiction, and this one is of a superior sort. Baoshu (a pen name) is a fan, specifically of the cosmically successful … Continue reading

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