1970s
“All I’m saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself,” says Randy ‘Pink’ Floyd, towards the end of Dazed And Confused, the joyfully plotless 1993 film directed by Richard Linklater. It could be argued that
1970s
Woodbrook, by David Thomson (1974) I'd not read Woodbrook before I wrote my new book and they're very very different works in many ways but I relate to its intentions in that it is, like mine, a not-quite nature book, a not-quite social history book, a
1970s
Nobody understands heartbreak like Linda Ronstadt did between 1969 and 1975. Nobody. Not even a novelist who has spent half a century exploring heartbreak through a series of epic, life-rupturing literary works, renowned for their dissection of the romantic condition. Ronstadt might have been singing lyrics written by other people
1970s
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES (1970) People have talked a lot about what an amazingly fully-formed and confident debut 'The Hidden Life Of Trees' was but what is often forgotten is that I'd been around the block more than a few times by this point. I&