Various wacky folk remedies for the evil that is slug. Personally, I'll stick with the slug slinging.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
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.
Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
The Reluctant Mr Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
Handy analysis of Darwin's procrastination over publishing Origin of Species.
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
David Quammen travels the world, visiting endangered species.