I'm a librarian to trade, and so predisposed to appreciate the ordering of knowledge. So there were few risks inherent in giving me this book…
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Right at the beginning of her published writing career, more years ago than she or I would like to remember, animal rights was something about…
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It's fairly well known by now that I love all things to do with the sea. You might think that this makes me undiscriminating when…
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I've never been someone who's fascinated by the history of RMS Titanic. I haven't seen Kate and Leo's film, paid attention to the conspiracy theories…
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I’ve known Paul Dowswell long enough to have forgotten exactly when we met. It was at an Edinburgh International Book Festival when I was chairing…
As the author himself admits, the title is perhaps a slight exaggeration but the book is a gallop through a history of the world. The…
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I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…
What On Earth Books are new to me but Laura Smythe who works as part of the publicity team is not and she sent me…
Wide Eyed Editions is aptly named. Its books are truly full of wonder. Even when they deal with subjects I'm not interested in, I love…
I'm fascinated by the early part of the twentieth century; it was such a turbulent time in British history. The First World War aside, one…
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