The biography of John Stephens Henslow, Charles Darwin's tutor at university, and an all-round, thoroughly good chap.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
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 Little Book of Slugs
Various wacky folk remedies for the evil that is slug. Personally, I'll stick with the slug slinging.
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.