14 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Recollections may vary in the best Retros out now: SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW, THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA by Rumer Godden, DUEL DUET by Graham Greene
Sally Morris reviews the best Retros out now.
9 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Neurodivergent, By Nature by Joe Harkness: Why people with autism are at one with nature
Joe Harkness suffers from ADHD but finds nature a safe space. In his new book he explores why people with neurodivergence excel in the natural world.
Historian Eve Macdonald recounts the meteoric rise and crashing fall of Rome’s greatest adversary, Carthage.
Beaten with chains, held at gunpoint and sexually abused, the women of Nagyrev could see only one way out… poisoning their husbands, fathers-in-law and sons with arsenic.
8 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The man who discovered Elvis… and then destroyed him: How the King spiralled into addiction and death at the hands of his high-rolling manager – revealed in bombshell biography by a writer who saw it happen
Addiction was the glue that held Elvis Presley and his manager ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker together during the last few years of the singer’s life.
7 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The Colonel and the King by Peter Guralnick: He discovered Elvis – but also destroyed him
A new biography of the singer’s much vilified and exploitative manager ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker aims to restore his reputation, claiming he was a force for good. Not so says Ray Connolly.
6 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Still Me by Sabina Brennan: I'm a top dementia doctor, but even I wasn't prepared when my mum got the disease — here's what I wish I'd known
Despite years working as a neuroscientist and dementia specialist Dr Sabina Brennan still struggled caring for her mother as she succumbed to the illness.
6 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The New Total War by Bob Seely: Putin's most dangerous weapon? Mind control
As the war between Ukraine and Russia continues Bob Seely looks at how war has evolved in the modern world.
6 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Truck It! by Bobby Bolton: 53 countries, two dogs… one new girlfriend
When Bobby decided to pack up his life, and dog, into a 6 ton truck he had no idea that love and adventure would be just around the corner.
31 Jul, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Cosy up with classic crime this month: A Case of Life and Limb by Sally Smith, The Magus of Sicily by Philip Gwynne Jones, The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
Cosy up with a classic crime