NORTH WOODS
Daniel Mason (John Murray, $37.99)
“Mason is astonishingly good at the risky business of writing about nature and place.
‘If these walls could talk” – surely a contender for the most heard cliché on certain history and/or real estate programmes. Yet many houses, especially very old ones, though constructed of ordinary, familiar materials, and containing expected rooms, do somehow acquire an emotional patina. But could this alluring idea be taken much further? What, for instance,
