It is Christmas present buying time, so time for my Books of the Year 2018. I’ve been spoiled for choice this year, with a constant…
How to give up plastic by Will McCallum is a great book to read if you are thinking about what more you can do to…
On my twice daily hour-long commute on the train into and out of London, it is very rare for a fellow passenger to strike up…
I have long been a fan of Jane Austen and I am also a huge fan of the fabulous Lucy Worsley, who does such a…
I have been a regular listener of the podcast Pod Save America since it launched in the dark days of January 2017 before Donald Trump…
I read a couple of newspaper articles earlier this year about the extraordinary murder in New Zealand in 1954 of Honorah Parker (or Rieper as…
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker is the latest book I’ve read in the last few years on…
I read Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown completely by chance as it was…
Since the mid 1990s I’ve been a follower of the Clintons, doing my PhD on Clinton welfare reforms, and then being ever hopeful that Hillary…
In January I started to read my way through my Christmas books, starting with Logical Family by Armistead Maupin. I think I’ve read every novel…
I love reading and always have. I'm also a big fan of writing, hence writing a blog about reading. I read lots for both work and pleasure and thankfully the boundary between the two is nicely blurred.
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