Well plotted but slightly over-long novel: Victorian lesbians, pickpockets and pornographers—but not as racy as it sounds.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow 1796-1861
The biography of John Stephens Henslow, Charles Darwin's tutor at university, and an all-round, thoroughly good chap.
True North: In praise of England's better half
The Guardian's Nothern Editor explains why things aren't quite so grim up north.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Why its important to get you're punctuation, right!
The Complete Maus
The author's father's holocaust experiences, narrated in cartoons.
The Confusion: Volume 2 of the Baroque Cycle
Part two of the historical page-turner.
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, adventure, and swimming iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
Book review: ‘The Living Mountain’ by Nan Shepherd
1940s masterpiece of nature writing.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
How our evolutionary history is written into our bodies.
Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald
Unclassifiable masterpiece.