A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects Have you ever received a book, thanked the person, and only much later realised what a [...]
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The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold One of my current ‘favourite’ authors is Mick Herron. I only started reading his novels three [...]
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05, 2024
Colour Blind
Colour Blind Having a father who was a senior school physics teacher could have ensured all sorts of benefits. He could have helped me [...]
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Lincoln Rhyme
Lincoln Rhyme Twenty-five years ago, I saw a film advertised, a thriller with actors Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. I might not have paid [...]
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05, 2024
Transitions
Transitions It seems like the very distant past, but when I was a student of geology in my final years of high school, I [...]
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05, 2024
Monkey
DD35 – Monkey What defines a children’s classic book? One published more than fifty years ago and still regarded as ‘great’? Or from more [...]
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04, 2024
Losing the Middle Ground
Losing the Middle Ground The search for meaning is a never-ending quest. In part, it is what drives us to keep on learning, asking [...]
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04, 2024
Awakenings
Awakenings Although the evidence suggests its impact may be abating, we are all well aware of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global disease resulting from [...]
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04, 2024
What’s Going On?
What’s Going on? Browsing in the library is a dangerous pastime. I exercise this foolish endeavour in the Dickson Public Library in Canberra. Like [...]
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04, 2024
Xanthippic Dialogues
Xanthippic Dialogues Roger Scruton has to be one of the most fascinating, frustrating and thought-provoking of modern philosophers. Along with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Jonathan Glover [...]
