I’ve been looking for a readable book that gives me the information I wanted on pandemics since lockdown started in the UK back in March. Everything that I picked up was either too dry and science based or read a bit like a science fiction novel. Honigsbaum strikes the perfect […]
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UK readers may be familiar with Cathy Newman from her role as journalist and presenter on Channel Four’s nightly news programme. She has a very direct but completely amicable style that often disarms the people that she interviews. This easygoing style translates into her written prose and what could be […]
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Watching the recent adaptation of Victoria on ITV made me want to know a little bit more about one of our most interesting monarchs. Her reign spanned a period of social and political upheaval, of great advances in medicine and technology and the foundations of modern Britain. This is a […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes