Lockley’s rules

by Charles May 3, 2017

Shortly off to Skokholm, to make a serious start on the sea book. And so of course I’m reading Ronald Lockley. He’s magnificent. Here, from ‘The Way to an Island’ (Dent, 1941, pp. 123-124) are his two rules for living (articulated when he’d just left school), along with his comments: ‘[The rules] were simple: just […]

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Ig Nobel Prize for Biology

by Charles September 23, 2016

Very pleased to announce that I have won an Ig Nobel Prize for Biology for the work in ‘Being a Beast’.

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Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize long list

by Charles September 21, 2016

Delighted that ‘Being a Beast’ has been long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize). There are some wonderful books on the list: I’m not holding my breath.

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New York Times Bestseller

by Charles September 6, 2016

Delighted to announce that ‘Being a Beast’ is a New York Times Bestseller.

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Emotions in the wild

by Charles May 19, 2016

This is an exchange, originally published here on the History of Emotions blog, with Thomas Dixon. Thomas’s questions are in bold italics. Your experiments in becoming a beast seem to have been motivated by something like E. M. Forster’s motto “Only connect” – but applied to non-human animals. Did you end up feeling that you […]

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Being a Beast talks in the UK

by Charles April 10, 2016

Currently scheduled 2016 UK talks are: 9 February: Royal Geographical Society 5 March: Words by the Water Festival 10 April: Oxford Literary Festival 23 April: Bristol Festival of Ideas 5 May: Chipping Campden Literary Festival 22 May: Wood Festival 27 May: Greenwich Literary Festival 8 June: Waterstones, Oxford 11 June: Cheltenham Science Festival 19 June: […]

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Being A Beast will be out in the UK in February 2016 (Profile Books), and in the US in June 2016 (Metropolitan)

by Charles December 17, 2015
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Human dignity in Howard Jacobson’s ‘J: A Novel’

by Charles November 10, 2015

‘J’ is not the title of this novel. The title is ‘J’ with two lines through it, to denote the two fingers that one of the central characters, Kevern Cohen, puts neurotically to his lips whenever he utters the letter ‘J’. For this is a novel about things that are not uttered, and the consequences […]

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Notebooks

by Charles July 15, 2014

On the shelves in my study there are long rows of small, hard-backed notebooks. Most of them are blue or black, with a red fabric spine. On the spine there are usually some dates, and often some place names: Beirut: 8-9/1993; Danakil: 4/2002; Misc North Africa 4-6/2007; Spitsbergen and North Pole: 2004; Peloponnese, 9/1997. Occasionally […]

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Travelling with camels: a practical guide

by Charles March 7, 2013

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