Essays
Longer pieces on books, walks, rooms and habits.
- On reading slowly Against skimming, and for the long afternoon with one book.
- Walking in the rain A defence of bad weather and the people who go out in it.
- The commonplace book Keeping a notebook of other people’s sentences.
- A room to write in On desks, doors, and the furniture of concentration.
- Along the coast (III) The last day, and what the notebook turned out to hold.
- Along the coast (II) Fishing boats, weather, and the slow arithmetic of tides.
- Along the coast (I) Setting out with a notebook and no particular plan.