Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Carl Jung
Egghead Choice - Crack open for a hard boiled think
Most autobiographies cover the main events of a life with the reader often left with only glimpses of the inner life of the author. Carl Jung’s...
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In Search of Memory
Eric R. Kandel
Experimental Evidence - Science and Technology
This is Eric Kandel’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel) account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence...
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Consider the Lilies
Iain Crichton Smith
Literary Bent - Writing at its best
The Highland Clearances, occurring roughly between 1792 and the 1850s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances), was one of the cruellest episodes in...
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Joseph Knight
James Robertson
Literary Bent - Writing at its best
Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter....
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Garnethill
Denise Mina
Criminally minded - tales of the behaviourally challenged
Denise Mina (http://www.denisemina.co.uk/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Mina) treats us to a grisly Glasgow crime novel in Garnethill. Maureen...
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