Charlie Gilmour

London

Author of 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, a memoir about fathers and birds. Contact @rcwlitagency or charlie(dot)gilmour(dot)author(at)gmail(dot)com

Articles

Book review: Tracing a late journalist’s footprints

1 month ago | taipeitimes.com | Charlie Gilmour

By Charlie Gilmour / The Guardian On page 165 of How to Save the Amazon, a black-and-white photo interrupts the text. Two wooden crucifixes stand in a freshly hacked clearing, lashed to tall, thin stumps. One of them bears the name Bruno Pereira. The other, Dominic Phillips, the author. The image splits the book in two. Before it, the pages are filled with Phillips’s vivid prose. After it, his friends and former colleagues have gathered and attempted to complete his work as best they can.
How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips review - tracing the late journalist’s footprints

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Charlie Gilmour

On page 165 of How to Save the Amazon, a black-and-white photo interrupts the text. Two wooden crucifixes stand in a freshly hacked clearing, lashed to tall, thin stumps. One of them bears the name Bruno Pereira. The other, Dominic Phillips, the author. The image splits the book in two. Before it, the pages are filled with Phillips’s vivid prose. After it, his friends and former colleagues have gathered and attempted to complete his work as best they can.
Bird School by Adam Nicolson review – close encounters of a feathery kind

2 months ago | msn.com | Charlie Gilmour

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Bird School by Adam Nicolson review - close encounters of a feathery kind

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Charlie Gilmour

It is apposite, then, that writer Adam Nicolson’s love affair with birds began with a raven – a dead one – that he picked up from the side of a road. “Holding its rigid form,” he writes in Bird School, “was like exploring a derelict house. Rafters, furnishings, upholstery, timbers, abandonment.
Under a Metal Sky by Philip Marsden review – our dark materials

Feb 12, 2025 | msn.com | Charlie Gilmour

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Under a Metal Sky by Philip Marsden review - our dark materials

Feb 12, 2025 | theguardian.com | Charlie Gilmour

One summer, a couple of millennia ago, the 14-year-old high priest of a meteor-worshiping cult in Syria learned that his cousin, Emperor Caracalla of Rome, had died and that he was to be installed in his place. The teenage priest – later known as Emperor Elagabalus – brought his cult’s sacred stone with him to the capital, where he gave it a goddess for a bride, built it an enormous temple on the Palatine Hill, and ordered Romans to worship it above all other deities. His rule was brief.
England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempel review – unhappy valley

Oct 8, 2024 | msn.com | Charlie Gilmour

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England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempel review - an amiable ramble

Oct 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Charlie Gilmour

What is the duty of the nature writer? It’s a question nature writers love to ask themselves. The more optimistic might say that their task is to mend humanity’s broken relationship with the natural world; pessimists that their role is merely to “bear witness” to life on a dying planet. As the nature-writing genre continues to flourish – in terms of sales, at least – the answer from publishers might be that the first duty of the nature writer is simply to write.
The pet I’ll never forget: the fox I invited into my home – but never quite trusted | Life and style | The Guardian

Jul 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Charlie Gilmour

Pitiably small, with a moth-eaten coat, he took food from my hand and liked to snuggle. Then my wife found him padding towards the nursery ...
Amphibious Soul by Craig Foster – natural narcissist

May 15, 2024 | msn.com | Charlie Gilmour

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