Dear Abigail – Founding mothers of a new Nation
I love reading biographies. I’ve been looking, recently, for biographies of strong women. After all, we do make half the world’s population and our story needs to be known. Dear Abigail: The Intimate...
View ArticleAmy My Daughter: an Amy Winehouse Biography by her father
Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was one of the more notorious female singer songwriters of her generation. Her looks – 60’s inspired as her dad reminds us – her lyrics and her bouts...
View ArticleAn Atomic Love Story: the Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
I’ve been looking around for biographies of strong women and An Atomic Love Story caught my eye. However, it is really – and this is significant – a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, the famous (and...
View ArticleTolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most...
It felt like something of a betrayal when the first Tolkien movies came out. The private world my dad had taken us (my two brothers and I) to on our Sunday walks was suddenly public property. Of course...
View ArticleKennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America’s Most Public Family
As a non-American, I did not grow up on ‘The Kennedy’s’. However, nobody can escape their myth completely. This book looks at the wives of the prominent Kennedy brothers, and their mother Rose. As we...
View ArticleTracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures – a novel
Fossils were one of the discoveries of the early 19th century. Studying them, scientists came to interpret the Bible – and the history of creation – very differently. Those scientists were men, of...
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