“Had he not wrapped himself in a discarded cloak, Ulysses would have frozen to death at Troy. Our hero’s host, Eumaeus the swineherd, hears the story and gets the hint: He loans Ulysses a cloak, [more…]
PKD lived from 1928 to 1982, dying aged 53 of a stroke. He wrote Science Fiction – over 40 novels and 120 short stories. His were the stories behind many famous films such as: Do [more…]
The seed of this article came from this site, I was like many other GPers a poster on GF until banned, whether SB knew what he was creating I don’t know but he is to [more…]
According to amazon, ‘Nigel Parsons was born in an army camp in the South of England and spent many of his early years living in the remnants of the British empire, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, and [more…]
The Jaggard Case is book number 10 in a series written by author J.C. Briggs. Set in Victorian London the series describes the adventures of one Charles Dickens (yes, that Charles Dickens) who has turned [more…]
Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei, Led us too this perfect day. Marx, Wood, Wei and Christ, All but Wei were sacrificed. Wood, Wei, Christ and Marx, Gave us lovely schools and parks. Wei, Christ, Marx [more…]
Ultra-Processed Foods have been getting a lot more press recently and I’d been wanting to know more about the subject beyond the few articles I’d read and this book seemed as good as any. The [more…]
Half an academic dry tome and half one of the most exciting books I’ve ever read, this book lays out the evidence for what is known as ‘the Solutrean hypothesis’. It’s basically trying to answer [more…]
There are spy novels…. & novels about spies. Fleming, Deighton & Le Carre definitely wrote the former (& in doing so laid bare their inner classist prejudices) , whilst Ambler, Greene, & Conrad constructed far [more…]
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