I am in awe of Emily Chappell. Not only does she do amazing things on a bike (see also “Where There’s a Will“), but she writes engagingly and fluently about her life on and off the bike in such a … Continue reading →
An entertaining and thought-provoking personal account of the highs and lows of living life as a single woman.
Continue reading →The subtitle of this book is “Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World”. It presents a series of case studies supporting the author’s belief that what we think is ‘history’ – what we think we know about the … Continue reading →
The author is well-known and successful in the world of endurance cycling – people who cycle 200 or more kilometres a day, day after day, across continents, grabbing a few hours sleep here and there, eating what and when they … Continue reading →
The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper The stories of the lives of these five women have one thing in common: they show how desperately hard life was for working-class women in mid-Victorian times, and how … Continue reading →
Across the USA in a Ford Model T Tim Moore is a travel writer who specialises in coming up with daft ideas, doing them, and then writing about them. Never having driven one before, his daft idea for 2018 was … Continue reading →
In the summer of 1967 when the rest of the world was heading to San Francisco to smoke hash and drop acid in Haight/Ashbury, I went to Finland for two months. I lived with a family in a tiny place … Continue reading →
Emma John trained as a classical violinist but abandoned any plans for a music career in her twenties when she realised she wasn’t quite good enough to play at the very highest level. She became a journalist and sports writer … Continue reading →
This is an excellent book! Almost everyone learns Pythagoras’ Theorem at school, which says that when the squares of each of the two shorter sides of a right-angle triangle are added together, the answers equals the square of the longest … Continue reading →
If you already know the web comic xkcd you’ll know what to expect from its creator and author Randall Munroe. You’ll probably have read his earlier book ‘What If?’, or online extracts from it. In this latest publication Munroe applies … Continue reading →