No Straight Road Takes You There, Rebecca Solnit

No Straight Road Takes You There, Rebecca SolnitNew Hardback This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to

and dialogue in a life devoted to books

Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of “being normal” really is

though in general the actual killings were carried out by others

In his fiction

roadrunners who want to head onto the fells but who are wary about taking the first step

as well as some real-life historical figures who played a part in their lives

she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries

surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis

and the awe-inspiring beauty of the towering peaks and craggy canyons of the Sierra Nevada

a city-dwelling professional with a high-pressure job

Catch the most fish and put your counting skills to the test

At the time of his death in 2015