Nicholas Taylor-Collins in front of a bookshelf

Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

Tag: Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • ‘Clear’ by Carys Davies: winning the language-game

    ‘Clear’ by Carys Davies: winning the language-game

    Nothing much happens in Clear (2024), Carys Davies’s second novel to have won Wales Book of the Year.1 Ivar lives on a remote Scottish island, perhaps closer to Norway than mainland Scotland, and tends to his cow, his horse, and to the land. In nineteenth century Scotland, John Ferguson is sent to invite him to…