ALTERNATE VOICES: MIKE ROBBINS

I reviewed Mike Robbins' book, Three Seasons, last month as part of my weekly Indie Review series. If you haven't yet checked out the review, check it out here.

If you want to write about home, it's easier to do it from somewhere else. The everyday clatter of the media, the news, the arguments, drop away and after a few months you begin to understand what defines your country, at least for you. Three Seasons is a very personal look back at England in the 1980s, written in the two years after I...