You know, the good folks of my adoptive county are so full of themselves sometimes…'Appen today is Yorkshire Day.
2009 Books
A list of the books read by me during 2009.
by Adrian Desmond & James Moore
How Charles Darwin's abhorrence of slavery influenced his science.
by Steve Jones
A modern-day updating of Darwin's less well-known books.
by Simon Gray
Final, posthumous volume of playwright Simon Gray's wonderful series of diaries.
by Alex Clark (ed.)
Themed on dads.
by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
by Richard Holmes
Science between the Banks and Darwin voyages.
by Mark Pallen
A handy guide to all things evolutionary.
by Richard Fortey
The personalities and politics behinds the scenes at the Natural History Museum.
by Roger Deakin
The jottings of a great observer of nature's minutiae.
by John van Wyhe
A useful booklet about Darwin's Cambridge connections.
by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
by Philip Hoare
A wonderful history of man's relationship with the whale.
by Alex Clark (ed.)
Another eclectic mix..
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins returns to what he's best at.
by Tim Dee
A perfect blend of science and poetry.
by Alex Clark (ed.)
Yawn!
by Martin Wainwright
The Guardian's Nothern Editor explains why things aren't quite so grim up north.
