09:30am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
Want to know why male bears kill cubs? Or have you heard of the humpback whale which expressed gratitude on release from netting? Whether they are better natured... Read More
09:29am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
This is just not a reworking of the Holocaust. If it is possible to humanise the Nazis progroms Kristallnacht portended in 1938, Rees has managed it. It psyched... Read More
09:28am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
How We Invented Freedom and Why it Matters, by Daniel Hannan. Published by Had of Zeus. 400 pages. Boris Johnson, Mayor London, says Hannan bestrides the Atlantic... Read More
09:26am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
Fall of Man from Wilmslow, by David Lagercrantz. Published by MacLehose. Translated by the Swedish language by George Goulding. Pages 366. Mathematical genius... Read More
09:25am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
Simon Winchester has a justifiably popular following on esoteric subject matter. His latest book, The Men who United the States, is a play on the men who shaped... Read More
09:23am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
Rudolf Hoss was the kommandant at Auschwitz, the byword of the World War ll Holocaust, the concentration camp of the deaths of 1.3 million people, 90 per cent of... Read More
09:22am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
Tossing us a title which acceptable in common usage but still can shock when in print might count against a book of this nature. For its contents are laced with... Read More
09:21am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
This is another prescient, perceptive slice of aspects of life everyone should know, how all forms of life struggle for dominance. We're told by Matthew in Genesis... Read More
09:19am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
This book's subtitle ‘Achieve the impossible with the Apollo Mindset' is its substance. Apart from finally convincing flat earthers that a moon or two exists... Read More
09:18am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
The importance of networking since time immemorial is the central theme of Niall Ferguson's latest work. The great British historian asks whether networks are... Read More
09:16am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
The murderous, penetrative stare. His hair brushed as if with boxthorn. His beard falls to resemble the wisps of an Ibis. These are images of a monster. And with... Read More
09:15am Thu 21 Feb, 2019
Skiffle is generally assumed the genesis of rock n roll in England. This is another prescient, perceptive slice of aspects of life everyone should know, that all... Read More