What I Read in March
The books I've finished so far in 2025.
Another month of 2025 has already ticked away, so it’s time once more for the end of the month book update.
The Old Man and the Sand Eel
An interesting book on fishing, and a young man’s relationships with his father and grandfather. The author grew up in a similar era and similar and location to me which also added to the interest. Not a bad read, but each section was quite inconsistent.
Red Rag to a Bull
A 21st century look at mixed farming in the southwest of Scotland. Well written and uncovered a lot of the insanity that the government and agriculture departments creates, perhaps doubled because of the excessive nannyism and meddling of the devolved Celtic governments. The writer professes to have very centrist politics, yet never really comes to term that decades of centrism are exactly what has left him where he is.
Horizons of Iron
An important book, as it’s one of the first modern outsider RW poetry books published by the ever important Imperium Press. It’s good, with some brilliant entries, but in some ways it’s too timely for my taste. I can understand why writing and publishing poetic takes on various events is a good idea, but I found the more general and less timely works to be the best. The writer, Arthur Powell, has his own substack.
War Kitchen - Winter
I wouldn’t usually count a magazine, but War Kitchen have done something exceptional and produced one of the highest quality publications I’ve come across. With things like this, and European Conservative, we’re seeing the traditional magazine model being turned around and something new and better in its place. I think things like Man’s World and IM1776 both do a similar thing, but the postage costs to Britain are exceptionally punitive so I haven’t read either.
