Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context
My copy of Emerson's essays belonged to my grandmother and is dated 1898. It seems that she bought it herself as it is not dedicated…… Read More »
Category: General
Revolution
Russell Brand perhaps needs no introduction. His notoriety precedes him, as one who confesses, honestly I might add, to having within him an "extremist, destructive…… Read More »
Digital Inferno
How can we survive and thrive in a digital world without succumbing to what the author calls digital drift, when you suddenly find you have…… Read More »
Women in Waiting
Since the publication of this important book about prejudice at the heart of the Church, the General Synod of the Church of England has finally…… Read More »
In Confidence
Subtitled 'talking frankly about fame' this is a compilation of a series of interviews on Sky Arts that constitutes a reflection on the nature of…… Read More »
Animal Wisdom
Endorsed by Jane Goodall, who writes about the benefit we get from close relationship with animals and the way in which they can enrich us…… Read More »
Apprenticeship
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: General
I recently had the pleasure of being in Italy at Spineto Abbey where the letter-cutter Lida Kindersley was awarded one of the annual human ecology…… Read More »
Full of Hope and Fear
Subtitled 'the Great War Letters of an Oxford Family', these letters were found in a trunk and convey a vivid impression of the impact of…… Read More »
Veiled Warriors
This brilliant and highly informative book describes the conditions of Allied nurses during the First World War both sequentially and on the different fronts, including…… Read More »
The Oxford Companion to Food
The first edition of this magisterial work appeared 15 years ago, the fruit of over 20 years of labour by Alan Anderson, who retired early…… Read More »