by NRB | 18 Feb 2020 | Non-fiction |
Not just for dog-lovers, this miscellany contains canine tales from literature and history. First, a confession. I am not particularly fond of dogs. So, when this book was sent to me for review I was unenthusiastic and expected it to be just another collection...
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...
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