July 18, 2019 The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange Reviewed by Peter Reason David Gange is historian at the University of Birmingham and a passion for mountains and wild water. Well before The…
July 11, 2019 This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook Edited by: Farrell, Clare, Alison Green, Sam Knights, and William Skeaping Review by Peter Reason There cannot be many followers of Shiny New Books…
July 4, 2019 CHAOS:Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill Review by Basil Ransome-Davies In Stephen Dobyns’ murder mystery Saratoga Swimmer Charlie Bradshaw, unlicensed private eye and true-crime addict, recounts the story of New…
July 2, 2019 Selfies by Sylvie Weil Translated by Ros Schwartz Review by Karen Langley The selfie might seem to be a very modern phenomenon; the sight of people constantly stretching…
June 18, 2019 Birds in the Ancient World by Jeremy Mynott Review by Liz Dexter Jeremy Mynott is both a classical scholar and a writer on birds, and his love and deep knowledge of both…
June 11, 2019 Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles Review by Liz Dexter This truly spectacular book would grace any coffee table with ease, but it’s more than just a pretty face, with…
May 21, 2019 The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle Reviewed by Rebecca Foster It’s common practice nowadays, when publicizing a book review published in an online venue, to tag the author on social…
May 16, 2019 Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Review by Liz Dexter I felt a little overwhelmed facing up to reviewing this book, as there have been many reviews published since it…
May 9, 2019 Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Review by Karen Langley American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is perhaps more regularly acknowledged nowadays for his pivotal role in pioneering the Beat Generation; from…
May 9, 2019 Horizon by Barry Lopez Review by Peter Reason Barry Lopez is one of the greats of ‘nature writing’ (although he dislikes the term, as it seems do most…
May 7, 2019 So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch by Karl Ove Knausgaard Translated by Ingvild Burkey Reviewed by Jean Morris This is a book for fans of Karl Ove Knausgaard who also love the work of…
April 30, 2019 The Kindness of Strangers by Salka Viertel Reviewed by Lizzy Siddal There are times when an autobiography by someone you’ve never heard of just slots into your current reading stream. Such…
April 16, 2019 Cocoa An Exploration of Chocolate, With Recipes, by Sue Quinn Reviewed by Hayley Anderton There are all sorts of reasons I pick up cookbooks to look at: I like the cover, I like the…
April 9, 2019 The Art of Life Admin: How to do Less, do it Better, and Live More, by Elizabeth Emens Review by Liz Dexter Emens is a professor of Law who made the discovery a while back that there was something invisible and other…
April 2, 2019 Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy Review by Rob Spence It probably doesn’t occur to many people as they struggle to fix bolt B to batten F of the Ikea…
March 28, 2019 Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner Review by Helen Parry Although Marina Warner is perhaps best known (and deservedly) for her magnificent work on fairy tales, she has long been…
March 26, 2019 War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Looking out from my inconsequential life, I’m often envious of people who save lives on a regular basis – doctors,…
March 21, 2019 The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Review by Peter Reason I am approaching my seventy fifth birthday. As I look back, I see my life has been overshadowed by the…
March 12, 2019 Let Her Fly: A Father’s Journey and the Fight for Equality by Ziauddin Yousafzai with Louise Carpenter Review by Liz Dexter I received a copy of this book by Malala Yousafzai’s father from NetGalley and then managed to find a copy…
February 21, 2019 Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery Review by Peter Reason A natural history, Tim Flannery tells us, encompasses both the natural and the human worlds. This book attends to three…
February 19, 2019 With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix Reviewed by Annabel Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize in 2018 this book, which is full of wisdom and compassion, was one of the…
February 19, 2019 The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes Review by Rob Spence This remarkably compelling memoir is, surprisingly, the first prose publication of George Szirtes, one of our most distinguished poets. At…
February 14, 2019 I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux Review by Max Dunbar Alpha males in print tend to be omega males in real life. Friedrich Nietzsche was not rich during his lifetime….
February 12, 2019 Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky Review by Peter Reason I am not sure how I came across this book; I think I followed a link on Twitter. It appealed…
February 7, 2019 The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long When I was a little girl I used to receive the latest Famous Five book by Enid Blyton every Christmas….
