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Continue reading →: Book review: Cold Sunflowers by Mark Sippings
My rating: 3 of 5 stars It is a remarkable testament to the way of the world right now that authors who self publish can find their books taken on an equal footing with those published through traditional mainstream houses. And so it should be. This is, to an extent,…
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Continue reading →: Book review: Factfulness by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Hans Rosling’s book on how to ‘get it right’ and not allow yourself to believe or propagate what has come to be known as ‘fake news’ is now rightly considered a classic and very probably a ‘must-read’. What I didn’t expect, as I read…
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Continue reading →: Book review: The Point of Poetry by Joe Nutt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I came across Joe Nutt’s introduction to poetry for the metrophobe – the person who doesn’t like or ‘get’ poetry – through a review from Dr Oliver Tearle’s excellent literary site, Interesting Literature. The idea of the book appealed to me. I teach poetry…
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Continue reading →: Book review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I reviewed Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ I was a little damning of the literary depth. It was, of course, brilliantly written – you can tell Margaret Atwood can handle the English language with immense skill – but I criticised the fact it told…
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Continue reading →: Book review: The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ll come straight to the point: Mark Forsyth is one of my very, very, very favourite writers. He shares with another of my top favourites, Bill Bryson, two vital qualities: Firstly, he’s hilarious. I mean, not forced ‘tell a gag’ kind of humour. Just…
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Continue reading →: Book review: Watership Down by Richard Adams
My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you are one of my regular readers who, for some reason, continue to like reading my book reviews, then you will know that within my eclectic range of literary interests there is a subsection of going over books from my younger years which…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: 52 Times Britain was a Bellend by James Felton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars James Felton is, on the strength of this book, my new personal god. There is literally nothing to fault bar the fact he uses copious amounts of ‘F’ words and insults. But then, with the title featuring the words ‘bellend’ in it you’d have…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ve had the classic book on my shelf for a very long time and – as both an historian and psychologist who believes very much in the influence of evolution – I felt it was about time I read the ‘prequel’, if you will,…
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