The jottings of a great observer of nature’s minutiae.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays
Dawkins demonstrating that he can write wonderfully sensitively, as well as rant.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Dawkins returns to what he's best at.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
Dawkins's lavishly illustrated magnum opus-cum-coffee table book.
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
An excellent exposé of the failure of the newspaper industry.
Book review: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin's first masterpiece.
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 7: 1858–1859
Darwin's correspondence leading up to the publication of On the Origin of Species.
The Moonstone
Victorian blockbuster.
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post-9/11 World
What America (and the rest) is really up to.
Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.