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D.J. Taylor
From: The Spectator
Date: 20051126
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Among new works of non-fiction, I was transfixed by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey's Birds Britannica (Chatto, £35), a superlative doorstop-sized framing of natural history within its wider cultural context. As an annual passage migrant to Southwold in Suffolk, I also greatly enjoyed Ian Collins's Making Waves: Artists in Southwold (Black Dog Books, £30).
Pierre Coustillas's George Gissing: The Definitive Bibliography (Rivendale Press, £50) made me yearn once again for Professor Coustillas's biography of Gissing, advance notice of which I first saw in a publisher's catalogue over 20 years ...
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