The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

LITERARY BENT - Writing at its best

Sarah Waters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waters and http://www.sarahwaters.com/) is a Welsh born novelist best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet (1998). In 2002, this novel was adapted into a three-part television series of the same name for BBC 2. If Victorian lesbian cunnilingus holds any appeal for you, the novel and DVD (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tipping-Velvet-Complete-BBC-DVD/dp/B00007DL9J/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1418862038&sr=1-1&keywords=tipping+the+velvet) would make for a fine Christmas gift. Novels that […]

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Six Existentialist Thinkers by Harold Blackham

EGGHEAD CHOICE - Crack open for a hard boiled think

Existentialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism) was fashionable in the 1960s. Much of this is to do with the fact that its ideas were presented and consumed in theatre, literature, and popular culture. It insists that thinking begins with the human subject—not as a disembodied exercise in reason, but the acting, feeling, living human being. This chimed with the zeitgeist, and

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Charles Darwin: Voyaging

LIVES WELL LIVED? A pick from biography and memoir

Few lives of great men offer so much interest, and so many mysteries, as the life of Charles Darwin. His ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than a hundred years after his death. Many believe him simply to be the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science. Janet Browne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Browne and http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/browne.html) offers a vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin

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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

FANTASTIC FICTION - Escapes to other places and other times, LITERARY BENT - Writing at its best

How much do we really know one another? What are the things that have to be kept secret in normal family and social life for humans function? Celeste Ng (http://www.celesteng.com/) expertly explores and exposes such secrets in the family Lee of Ohio in her debut here. Long-hidden, quietly explosive truths, weighted by issues of race and gender, are

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Living with a Wild God

LIVES WELL LIVED? A pick from biography and memoir

In middle age, Barbara Ehrenreich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ehrenreich and http://barbaraehrenreich.com/) came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny – or as she later learned to call them, “mystical”-experiences. A staunch atheist and

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Behavioural Ecology

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE - Science & Technology

There is a comparatively new discipline in biology which is ‘Behavioural Ecology’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_ecology). It seeks to provide theoretical frameworks to answer questions about animal behaviour especially in relation to ecological context. It has proven to be a highly fruitful and fascinating area of study. The book examines how animals struggle to survive and reproduce. It shows how they exploit

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