The curiously forgotten: Eugene Burdick, FWS Craig and Anthony Price
Other than all featuring in multiple places on my bookshelves at home, what brings the three of them together? … Read the full post »
Books
Here you can read all my reviews of books, and assorted matters – such as why I love printed books. They’re so much better than e-books.
How the Liberal Party in Eastleigh grew through the 1970s
Following on from his two previous volumes, Martin Kyrle’s “The Liberals in Hampshire – a Part(l)y History: Part 3 Eastleigh 1972-81: the thorn in the flesh bursts into flower” takes the story of the Liberal Party in his part of Hampshire through to becoming a growing political group. … Read the full post »
My Life as a Quant: Emanuel Derman’s memoirs
Emanuel Derman’s My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance is a gentle amble through a career that took in physics and then taking mathematical analysis to Wall Street. … Read the full post »
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance
If you had to boil down Matthew Seyd’s Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance to four words it would be the fairly unexceptional sounding ‘learn from your mistakes’. … Read the full post »
Will we still be prisoners of geography? The conundrum Tim Marshall leaves unaddressed
I’m an outlier when it comes to Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall. … Read the full post »
The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do and how to change
Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do and how to change is really two books in one. … Read the full post »
Where Do Comedians Go When They Die?
Milton Jones’s Where Do Comedians Go When They Die? first came out in 2009 and was then re-released courtesy of the Robson Press imprint run by Biteback. A good thing too, as it’s a very funny book which also gives a great insight into the life of a stand-up comedian. … Read the full post »
Rob Brydon: Small Man in a Book – best listened to rather than read
Much of Rob Brydon’s autobiography is about his early years doing voiceovers for adverts and trying out comic characters with funny voices on the radio. Which makes the audio version of this book better than the printed version. … Read the full post »
Bryant & May Off the Rails – another great Christopher Fowler crime novel
Bryant & May Off the Rails once again features Christopher Fowler’s two ageing London detectives from the Peculiar Crimes Unit, Arthur Bryant and John May. … Read the full post »
Brains & Bullets: How psychology wins wars by Leo Murray
A crucial curio of warfare is that whilst huge numbers of people get killed in military conflicts, it takes huge numbers of troops and ammunition to kill even a single enemy soldier. … Read the full post »