by NRB | 14 Dec 2017 | Non-fiction |
Oliver Sacks continues to enrich our understanding of ourselves and our world. In the first essay of this posthumous collection (Sacks died in 2015), ‘Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers’, Charles Darwin’s son Francis is quoted on his father: ‘[it was] … as though...
by NRB | 31 Jul 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I love a good limerick. Recently I cooked up a couple for two of my grandsons: There once was a boy named Vin Who suddenly became very thin His mum said, ‘Eat more ‘Or you’ll feel very sore ‘When your bones start to poke through your skin.’ And: There once was a boy...