December 2013

Harvest by Jim Crace

LITERARY BENT - Writing at its best

Inimitable, Jim Crace (http://www.jim-crace.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crace) stands on his own ground among living English novelists. Immune to trends, guided by his own singular star, he has sown and grown an 11-volume shelf of finely crafted, intensely atmospheric books. Each novel fashions a unique climate, landscape and mood, a far cry from everyday realism though nothing to […]

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The Wavewatcher’s Companion

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE - Science & Technology

Gavin Pretor-Pinney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Pretor-Pinney) achieved unexpected success with his previous book, The Cloudspotter’s Guide, an appreciation of the different types of water vapour masses that fill our skies. Now the author has produced what he claims is a natural follow-up. ‘A mere cloud-spotter is, in fact, without even realising it, a wave-watcher, since clouds are often borne

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