Books on Goodreads
In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
reviews: 7
ratings: 29 (avg rating 3.72)
The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told!
reviews: 5
ratings: 32 (avg rating 3.22)
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Category Archives: Writing & Reading
Therianthropic
Set somewhere in the north of England where ancient shadows hover just beyond glimpsing, teen novel Bone Jack by Sara Crowe shows that fiction for young readers needn’t stint on horror and darkness – and can cleave to much more … Continue reading
Anatamogenic
When Crox Minor and I visited the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons recently, I bought a copy of The Knife Man, by Wendy Moore, a biography of John Hunter, whose collection forms the nucleus of this remarkable … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Writing & Reading
Tagged chthonic, effluvia, eldritch, hunterian museum, ichor, john hunter, royal college of surgeons, the knife man, wendy moore, william hunter
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Autobuccinery
On my thirtieth birthday I remember feeling that whatever else I might have achieved, I’d at least published my first book. More than twenty years later, it seems I might have produced something that people actually want to read. The Shameless Plug has made … Continue reading
Medicine and Maths
As you both know, Crox Minor wants to become a surgeon, and some time ago she announced that what she most wanted to do to celebrate her 16th birthday was to go to London and visit the Hunterian Museum at … Continue reading
Posted in Domesticrox, Writing & Reading
Tagged brian clegg, hunterian museum, infinity, john hunter, maths, medicine, science museum, steven strogatz, wendy moore
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The Anonymity of Warfare
My colleague Professor S. C. of London has just alerted us to a short film clip showing how airmen prepared an atomic bomb for use on Nagasaki in 1945, commenting that the full horror of the piece lies in its … Continue reading
Tsundoku III
As it’s National Book week all this week, and yesterday was World Book Day, this lunchtime saw me indulging my tsundoku habit at the Break charity shop in Cromer (well, that’s my excuse.) This is what I bought: Peoples and … Continue reading
Posted in Writing & Reading
Tagged climbing mount improbable, guns germs and steel, jared diamond, national book week, richard Dawkins, tsundoku, world book day
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Authoration
Not having written any books lately about teenage vampires, schoolboy wizards, sadomasochism, cookery or gardening, the times I’ve been asked for advice about how to get a book published can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. (The times … Continue reading
The Accidental Audiobook
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I knew that the Shameless Plug was soon to come out as an audiobook. Well, it’s here, and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, here. Narrated by the very splendid Martin Dew, it’s completely unabridged, and, … Continue reading
Squishy
When a colleague of Mrs Crox learned that Crox Minor (15) wanted to go to medical school and study to be a surgeon, the colleague recommended that Crox Minor read Brain Matters: Adventures of a Brain Surgeon. So she did, … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Is Vital, Writing & Reading
Tagged books, brain matters, careers, glioblastoma, healthcare, katrina s firlik, neurosurgery, reading and writing, sexism
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Writing Spaces
At the beginning of his memoir Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it. I know, I know, I swore I wouldn’t, either. But the temptation … Continue reading
