How small experiments led to a big theory.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend
The Pattern of Friendship.
Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.