Tuesday, 30 April 2024

On Difficulty and Obfuscation

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    Parliamentarians of the English Civil War period expressed the hope that one day the laws of England might be compressed into “the b...
Saturday, 27 April 2024

Review Peter Ackroyd The English Soul

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    Reading this book was like working through a cut and paste job. Peter Ackroyd acknowledges  the help of two research assistants (Thomas ...
Monday, 1 April 2024

Review David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu Who Owns This Sentence?

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  This is an important book not published by a major non-fiction house. It provides for three countries (France, Britain, USA) a detailed ...
Saturday, 30 March 2024

My Life in Letters Then and Emails Now

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. From the published volume of letters A Private Spy (2022) it’s clear that John le Carré was good at keeping up with his correspondence....
Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Review Sathnam Sanghera Empireworld

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  This book is based on extensive research converted into very readable prose. It’s packed with detail some or much of which will be unfam...
Saturday, 9 March 2024

Review: Peter Ackroyd The English Soul Faith of a Nation

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    Reading this book was like working through a cut and paste job. Peter Ackroyd acknowledges the help of two research assistants (Thom...
Saturday, 11 November 2023

Review Angela Saini Inferior

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    Angela Saini describes herself as a science journalist and this 2017 book is a fine piece of investigative journalism in which she g...