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My favourite tree is the Ankerwyke Yew, beside the River Thames at Runneymede. While that remains outside the scope of this book, it is my pleasure to recommend visiting these great trees of London. - Tristan |
I emerged from this book blinking, stunned and more than a little high on caffeine. Compulsive, thought-provoking and as down-to-earth as a book about time travel can be, the story follows Ariel, a charmingly messed-up PhD student living in a mouse-infested flat on a diet of cigarettes, coffee and cheap wine. When she stumbles upon a semi-mythical - and supposedly cursed book, the fabled existence of which brought her to her studies in the first place, she can’t resist reading it. The End of Mr Y will sweep you into an intense world of 19th century philosophy, thought experiments and dusty libraries, with just a dash of time travel, nail-biting action and of course, romance. If you can start this book and then concentrate on anything else before finishing it then you’re a stronger person than me.
- Lisa |
I don’t like Derren Brown. At least, that’s what I thought until I read this book. It is the antithesis of his television ‘magic’ shows, and reveals the incredibly thoughtful, intelligent man behind his carefully-crafted stage persona. Oh, and his tricks for remembering are very useful indeed! - Tristan. |
This beautifully illustrated children’s book tells the story of early man’s ineffectual attempts to acquire protein in the days before animal husbandry. A perfect present for vegetarian or vegan friends who have recently become parents for the first time! - Tristan |
Association football is now a sport and an industry assimilated into every culture on the planet, but it was once a typically Victorian English institution of rules and rectitude. Beastly Fury maps the C19 birth of what became the global game through the English class system and growing urbanisation of the nation. There is also a chapter on the early years of women's football. - Sean. |
Definitive account of a long ignored conflict. Stone analyses the preparation, performance, challenging many accepted myths. - Sean. |
Winner of John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2007. The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and. Assets and weapons have been seized, every movement is monitored and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister’s story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime. From the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her such for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of 'unofficial' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria. If you liked Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, you’ll love this.
- Susan |
The slave trade is a scar across humanity that refuses to heal. The forced displacement of so many still resonates today. Marcus Rediker uses individual narratives to create a powerful social history of this unforgiven period, the foundation-stone of empire. - Tristan |
Arthur Conan Doyle; Mark Billingham This remarkable novella first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was Conan Doyle’s first significant work of fiction. Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H Watson MD, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes for the very first time. An unexplained murder reveals its antecedents in a travesty of justice in Salt Lake City, Utah. - Tristan. |
“Often the same men who commanded the legions in battle dominated the senate in peacetime.”
Goldsworthy examines the careers of fifteen leading Roman commanders throughout the life of the Roman Empire. Each chapter considers the achievements of a leading Roman general from the heyday of Republican/Imperial expansion to later defensive battles against encroaching Barbarian nations. The interplay between the political and military spheres is well covered to provide a picture of the “climate” at the time. A highly readable and innovative book by an outstanding historian of ancient Rome. - Sean. |
“Often the same men who commanded the legions in battle dominated the senate in peacetime.”
Goldsworthy examines the careers of fifteen leading Roman commanders throughout the life of the Roman Empire. Each chapter considers the achievements of a leading Roman general from the heyday of Republican/Imperial expansion to later defensive battles against encroaching Barbarian nations. The interplay between the political and military spheres is well covered to provide a picture of the “climate” at the time. A highly readable and innovative book by an outstanding historian of ancient Rome. - Sean. |
Comprising the veteran Leibstandarte and newly formed Hitlerjugend divisions, the 1st SS Panzer Corps provided the most tenacious opposition faced by the allied forces in Normandy. Initial counterattacks against the allied beachhead were followed by desperate resistance from increasingly beleagured and ground down Kampfgruppen , the gamble of the Mortain offensive and the final immolation of both divisions at Falaise.
A former British general, Reynolds examines the alchemy of doctrine, training, equipment and personalities which produced such a formidable instrument of war for Hitler's Reich. - Sean. |