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Book reviews 2014 – memoirs

Friday 26 December 2014
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See this guide to our book reviews by Dublin-based journalist and broadcaster Paul O'Doherty.

Sediment
Two Gentlemen and Their Mid-Life Terroirs
CJ and PK
John Blake
£12.99/$20

This well-written compilation of views is the work of bloggers Charles Jennings (CJ) and Paul Keers (PK), both well-established journalists, whose blog, Sediment – Two Gentlemen and Their Mid-Life Terroirs, has come in for some notice over the years. Chapter headings include Buying it, On the high street, Containment policy, Tools of the trade, Thinking and drinking, CJ’s French Connection and PK’s English Aspiration. The basic concept of the blog, and indeed...

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