Creatures of Story and Song Lee Raye, London: Reaktion, 2026, 312pps., hb., £16.95 In 2023, the State of Nature Report reported that Britain is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries – scarcely surprising to anyone who knows the ever-emptier countryside, indeed predictable for the small island that birthed the Industrial Revolution. Dr. Raye consults… Continue reading
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Emperor of imagination
King and Emperor – A New Life of Charlemagne Janet L. Nelson, London: Allen Lane, 2019, 659 pages, £25 Charles the Great looms out of the swirling obscurity of post-Roman Europe like the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria, signalling simultaneously radical renewal and an alteration of everything that came before. As Janet Nelson illuminates in her… Continue reading