Monthly Archives: October 2016
Westmorland Alone
Book Review: Westmorland Alone, by Ian Sansom I picked this up earlier this year at a work book sale. The title caught my eye, of course, and on further inspection it looked like a light-hearted pastiche of golden-age crime fiction. … Continue reading
Good tsar, Bad tsar
Book Review: Stalin – New Biography of a Dictator, by Oleg V Khlevniuk I picked this up in a work book sale over a year ago: theoretically interesting but hardly likely to be positive reading material. I think that’s how … Continue reading
Germany in the 1730s. And then in the 1930s.
I was given a flyer during the last week or two at the Proms for a concert featuring The Bach Players in Hampstead. We decided it looked interesting enough to be worth the effort, and booked tickets. Unfortunately we’ve both … Continue reading
First and Second Law (of Thermodynamics) 