“…we always look back to a time that didn’t exist.” Hannah Rose Woods has crafted a superb book that entertains as much as it does illuminates and does so without trying to be witty or find some forced clever idea that doesn’t work. Instead, she writes with the absolute precision you’d expect from an historian.… Read More Book Review: Rule, Nostalgia by Hannah Rose Woods
“We’re losing nature in huge swathes and not realising it.“ I reviewed Macfarlane’s ‘Lost Spells’ a little while ago after reviewing a wonderful production at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. Although the production was named after the Lost Spells, it was very much based both on that book and this one, The Lost Words. Both… Read More Book Review: The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
“The stock reaction…is to faint” There are times – only occasionally mind you – when one needs to be charitable. There is much the world owes H.P. Lovecraft. His name is legendary among those who adore stories of the bizarre and deranged. You must either be living under a rock or have no interest in… Read More Book Review: Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
“The novel is so badly written I found it almost offensive to read” I had this book recommended to me as something I might like. How wrong that person was (you think you know someone eh?). The fact that some people (including the aforementioned recommender) liked this novel is the only reason I’m not giving… Read More Book Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Having taken, quite literally, decades to get around to read my copy of I Claudius, I took a mere handful of days to read this sequel. That’s how much I was impressed (or more accurately, turned) by Robert Graves’ first book. This book takes up where the first left off – with Claudius now emperor… Read More Book Review: Claudius the God by Robert Graves
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